Shipment vs Expedition - What's the difference?
shipment | expedition |
a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship)
:* We're expecting another shipment of oranges tomorrow.
the act of transporting goods
:* Shipment of hazardous waste on this route is strictly prohibited.
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.
As nouns the difference between shipment and expedition
is that shipment is a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship while expedition is {{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} To act of expediting something; prompt execution.shipment
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(en noun)expedition
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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 […].