Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.

  2. (countable, uncountable)An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.

    Expedition

    экспеди́цияekspedícija

  3. (countable, uncountable)A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.

    a naval expedition

    a scientific expedition

    an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose

  4. (collective, countable, uncountable)The group of people making such excursion.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.

  6. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of expediting something; prompt execution.

    the property of being prompt and efficient

Examples

60 sentences
  1. He never returned from that expedition.

    ruОн никогда не вернулся из той экспедиции. — Balamax

    deEr kehrte nie von dieser Expedition zurück. — samueldora

  2. Who was the leader of the expedition?

    ruКто был лидером экспедиции? — odexed

  3. I watched the expedition as it set off.

  4. He was the leader of the great expedition.

    deEr war der Führer der großen Expedition. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. We're talking about who should lead the expedition.

    deWir sprechen darüber, wer die Expedition leiten sollte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
An important enterprise, implying a change of place:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
An important enterprise, implying a change of place:

Origin

From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.

From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.

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Forms

plural: expeditions
Singularexpedition
Pluralexpeditions

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

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