ekspidesyon : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

ekspidesyon [iks.pi.dis.yun.] :

expedition (n.)
[ Etymology: English: expedition ]

Derivatives of ekspidesyon

Glosses:

expedition
n. (act)	1. expedition, hostile expedition, military expedition	a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country.
	~ military campaign, campaign	several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints).
	~ crusade	any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.
	~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine	the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
n. (group)	2. expedition	an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose.; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
	~ working group, working party	a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved.; "the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks"
	~ lewis and clark expedition	an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806.
n. (act)	3. expedition	a journey organized for a particular purpose.
	~ journey, journeying	the act of traveling from one place to another.
	~ scouting trip	an expedition undertaken to gain information.
	~ hunting expedition, safari, campaign	an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
	~ exploration, geographic expedition	to travel for the purpose of discovery.
n. (act)	4. excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay	a journey taken for pleasure.; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
	~ journey, journeying	the act of traveling from one place to another.
	~ airing	a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air.; "he took the dogs for an airing"
	~ field trip	a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination.
n. (attribute)	5. despatch, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness	the property of being prompt and efficient.; "it was done with dispatch"
	~ celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, quickness	a rate that is rapid.