Readiness vs Expedition - What's the difference?
readiness | expedition | Synonyms |
The state or degree of being ready.
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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.
Readiness is a synonym of expedition.
As nouns the difference between readiness and expedition
is that readiness is the state or degree of being ready while expedition is the act of expediting or hurrying.readiness
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(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 […].
