expedition

Meanings

Noun

• The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
• A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
• The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
• An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
• A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
• The group of people making such excursion.

Verb

• To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.

Origin

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