Expedition vs X - What's the difference?
expedition | x |
To 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.
* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), :
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
*:he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 33:
*:The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ'' as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting ''irregular , as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.
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.
The body of persons making such excursion.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a noun expedition
is the act of expediting or hurrying.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.expedition
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 […].