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Noun expedition has 5 senses

expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition - a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
--₁ is a kind of campaign, military campaign
--₁ has particulars: Crusade
expedition - an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
--₂ is a kind of working group, working party
--₂ has particulars: Lewis and Clark Expedition
expedition - a journey organized for a particular purpose
--₃ is a kind of journey, journeying
--₃ has particulars:
scouting trip; campaign, hunting expedition, safari; exploration, geographic expedition
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay - a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
--₄ is a kind of journey, journeying
--₄ has particulars: airing; field trip
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness - the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
--₅ is a kind of celerity, quickness, rapidity