Expedition 音标拼音: [
, ɛkspəd'ɪʃən]
n . 考察,探险;考察队,探险队
考察,探险;考察队,探险队
expedition n 1 :
a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [
synonym : {
expedition },
{
military expedition }, {
hostile expedition }]
2 :
an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose ; "
an expedition was sent to explore Mars "
3 :
a journey organized for a particular purpose 4 :
a journey taken for pleasure ; "
many summer excursions to the shore "; "
it was merely a pleasure trip "; "
after cautious sashays into the field " [
synonym : {
excursion }, {
jaunt }, {
outing },
{
junket }, {
pleasure trip }, {
expedition }, {
sashay }]
5 :
the property of being prompt and efficient ; "
it was done with dispatch " [
synonym : {
dispatch }, {
despatch }, {
expedition },
{
expeditiousness }]
Expedition \
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n . [
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1 .
The quality of being expedite ;
efficient promptness ;
haste ;
dispatch ;
speed ;
quickness ;
as to carry the mail with expedition .
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With winged expedition [
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Swift as the lightning glance . ?
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2 .
A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence ;
progress .
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Putting it straight in expedition . ?
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3 .
An important enterprise ,
implying a change of place ;
especially ,
a warlike enterprise ;
a march or a voyage with martial intentions ;
an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end ;
as ,
a military ,
naval ,
exploring ,
or scientific expedition ;
also ,
the body of persons making such excursion .
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The expedition miserably failed . --
Prescott .
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Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains . --
J .
C .
Fremont .
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106 Moby Thesaurus words for "
expedition ":
advance ,
advancement ,
adventure ,
agility ,
air speed ,
alacrity ,
briskness ,
campaign ,
celerity ,
circuit ,
clarification ,
course ,
crusade ,
decisiveness ,
dispatch ,
drive ,
easing ,
emprise ,
enterprise ,
excursion ,
expediting ,
expeditiousness ,
exploration ,
facilitation ,
fastness ,
flight ,
flit ,
flurry ,
forwarding ,
furtherance ,
goodwill ,
grand tour ,
ground speed ,
haste ,
hastening ,
helping along ,
holy war ,
hurry ,
hustle ,
immediacy ,
immediateness ,
instantaneousness ,
jaunt ,
jihad ,
journey ,
junket ,
knots ,
lightning speed ,
miles per hour ,
mission ,
nimbleness ,
outing ,
package tour ,
peregrination ,
peregrinations ,
pilgrimage ,
pleasure trip ,
precipitation ,
preferential treatment ,
progress ,
promotion ,
promptitude ,
promptness ,
punctuality ,
punctualness ,
quest ,
quickening ,
quickness ,
rapidity ,
readiness ,
round pace ,
round trip ,
rpm ,
rubberneck tour ,
run ,
rush ,
rushing ,
rustle ,
safari ,
sally ,
sharpness ,
shoot ,
simplification ,
simplifying ,
smartness ,
smoothing ,
snappiness ,
special treatment ,
speed ,
speediness ,
speeding ,
spryness ,
stalk ,
streamlining ,
summariness ,
swift rate ,
swiftness ,
tour ,
travels ,
trek ,
trip ,
turn ,
undertaking ,
velocity ,
voyage ,
war
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