Tra từ expedition - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
military expedition, hostile expedition
• Derivationally related forms:
expeditionary
• Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
• Hypernyms:
campaign, military campaign
• Hyponyms:
Crusade
2. an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose (Freq. 3)
- an expedition was sent to explore Mars
• Hypernyms:
working group, working party
• Instance Hyponyms:
Lewis and Clark Expedition
3. a journey organized for a particular purpose (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
journey, journeying
• Hyponyms:
scouting trip, campaign, hunting expedition, safari, exploration, geographic expedition
4. a journey taken for pleasure (Freq. 1)
- many summer excursions to the shore
- it was merely a pleasure trip
- after cautious sashays into the field
• Syn:
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay
• Derivationally related forms:
junket (for: junket), jaunt (for: jaunt), excursionist (for: excursion)
• Hypernyms:
journey, journeying
• Hyponyms:
airing, field trip
5. the property of being prompt and efficient
- it was done with dispatch
• Syn:
dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness
• Derivationally related forms:
expeditious (for: expeditiousness), expeditious, dispatch (for: dispatch)
• Hypernyms:
celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness