expedition
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Is expedition a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.Examples: "My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […] Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […] And for the expedition of this war, If he thinke good, can from his garriſons, UUithdraw as many more to follow him."countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.Examples: "one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […]."; "he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill."; "He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition."archaiccountableuncountable
3. (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyagecountableuncountable
4. (collective) The group of people making such excursion.collectivecountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.Examples: "The attendance was given color by the ISO women who graced some of the sessions, attended the social events and expeditioned around the famous spots in Washington and its periphery area."; "I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company. These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary