Usually means: Journey organized for a specific purpose.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word expedition:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. expedition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. expedition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expedition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expedition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Expedition, expedition: Wordnik
  6. expedition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. expedition: Wiktionary
  8. expedition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. expedition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. expedition: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Expedition, expedition: Dictionary.com
  12. Expedition, The Expedition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Expedition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. expedition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. expedition: Rhymezone
  16. Expedition (f), expedition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. expedition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. expedition: Free Dictionary
  19. expedition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. expedition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. expedition: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. expedition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  23. Expedition (book): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. expedition: Vocabulary.com
  25. Expedition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. expedition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expedition: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expedition: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expedition: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
noun:  A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
noun:  (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
noun:  (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
noun:  A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
noun:  (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
noun:  The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
verb:  (intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.

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