"expedition" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-expedition.ogg [US] Forms: expeditions [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪʃən Etymology: From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ped-}}, {{uder|en|frm|expédition}} Middle French expédition, {{uder|en|la|expeditio}} Latin expeditio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} expedition (countable and uncountable, plural expeditions)
  1. (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-noun-4GVVIXHQ Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 9 27 23 5 6 11 5
  2. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-noun-jPoBLvOG
  3. (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-noun-VgCjL0-u Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 9 27 23 5 6 11 5
  4. (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Military Translations (An important enterprise, implying a change of place): արշավ (aršav) (Armenian), експеди́ция (ekspedícija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 遠征 (yuǎnzhēng) (Chinese Mandarin), expedice [feminine] (Czech), ekspedition [common-gender] (Danish), expeditie [feminine] (Dutch), V25-i-i-t: (wḏyt) [feminine] (Egyptian), ekspedicio (Esperanto), tutkimusretki (Finnish), tutkimusmatka (Finnish), expédition [feminine] (French), Expedition [feminine] (German), expedíció (Hungarian), felfedezőút (Hungarian), expediciono (Ido), ekspedisi (Indonesian), spedizione [feminine] (Italian), 遠征 (ensei) (alt: えんせい) (Japanese), expedītiō [feminine] (Latin), експеди́ција (ekspedícija) [feminine] (Macedonian), ekspedisi (Malay), penerokaan (Malay), pahī (Maori), ekspedisjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ekspedisjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ekspedycja [feminine] (Polish), wyprawa [feminine] (Polish), expedição [feminine] (Portuguese), экспеди́ция (ekspedícija) [feminine] (Russian), यामन् (yāman) [neuter] (Sanskrit), expedición [feminine] (Spanish), expedition [common-gender] (Swedish), sefer (Turkish), alldaith (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-noun-nRwMzgj7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 5 24 31 3 4 14 2 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 9 27 23 5 6 11 5 Topics: government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'An important enterprise, implying a change of place': 2 11 7 75 1 2 1
  5. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-noun-7uQKK15w
  6. (collective) The group of people making such excursion. Tags: collective, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-noun-gAU4eHp1
  7. The process or activities of performing expediter tasks. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-noun-qXMm1xXG Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 9 27 23 5 6 11 5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fishing expedition Translations (a group of people making a long trip): στόλος (stólos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), retkikunta (Finnish), felfedezőcsapat (Hungarian), pahī (Maori), oppdagelsesreise [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), expedition [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'a group of people making a long trip': 0 5 0 7 42 46 0

Verb [English]

IPA: /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-expedition.ogg [US] Forms: expeditions [present, singular, third-person], expeditioning [participle, present], expeditioned [participle, past], expeditioned [past]
Rhymes: -ɪʃən Etymology: From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ped-}}, {{uder|en|frm|expédition}} Middle French expédition, {{uder|en|la|expeditio}} Latin expeditio Head templates: {{en-verb}} expedition (third-person singular simple present expeditions, present participle expeditioning, simple past and past participle expeditioned)
  1. (intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-expedition-en-verb-8b9bd~Lq

Noun [Swedish]

Audio: Sv-en expedition.ogg
Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} expedition c, {{sv-noun|c}} expedition c Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-c-er}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], expedition [indefinite, nominative, singular], expeditionen [definite, nominative, singular], expeditioner [indefinite, nominative, plural], expeditionerna [definite, nominative, plural], expeditions [genitive, indefinite, singular], expeditionens [definite, genitive, singular], expeditioners [genitive, indefinite, plural], expeditionernas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. an expedition, a journey, a mission Tags: common-gender
    Sense id: en-expedition-sv-noun-WQt88vll Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 80 20
  2. an office Tags: common-gender
    Sense id: en-expedition-sv-noun-qbvLjG2d
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: expeditionschef

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    }
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "English intransitive verbs",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1950, Sewage and Industrial Wastes Engineering, volume 21, page 588",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, page 185",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel."
      ],
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        [
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          "travel"
        ]
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
    }
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        "US"
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        "US"
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    "expedition"
  ],
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}

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    "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Swedish lemmas",
    "Swedish nouns",
    "Swedish terms with audio links"
  ],
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
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      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "expeditionen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "expeditioner",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "expeditionerna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "expeditions",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "expeditionens",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "expeditioners",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "expeditionernas",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
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        "head": "",
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      "name": "head"
    },
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  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "expeditionschef"
    }
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        "an expedition, a journey, a mission"
      ],
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          "expedition",
          "#English"
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          "journey"
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        [
          "mission",
          "mission"
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      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "an office"
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        [
          "office",
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        "common-gender"
      ]
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      "text": "Audio"
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}

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