Expedition

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
 * 2) * 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * 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...
 * 1) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
 * he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
 * 1) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) The body of persons making such excursion.

Adjectives for Expedition
implemented; conquering; disastrous; maritime; elaborate; dangerous; Odyssean; hostile; filibustering; nervous; suicidal; successful; predatory;  brazen; particular; nefarious;  exploring; favorite; notable; rescue; zoological; costly; memorable; punitive; much-vaunted; perilous; sanguine; swiftest; abortive.

Verbs for Expedition
command—; defer—; endanger—; fit out—; guard—; hasten on—; head—; organize—; overwhelm—; prepare—; set forth on—; sponsor—; spur—; support—; undertake—; venture on—; —claims; —cruises; —discloses; —discovers; —sights; —uncovers; —winters.

Synonyms for Expedition
journey, trip, undertaking, mission, excursion, voyage, cruise, campaign, trek, safari, quest, alacrity, speed.

Thesaurus
advance, advancement, adventure, agility, air speed, alacrity, briskness, campaign, celerity, circuit, clarification, course, crusade, decisiveness, dispatch, drive, easing, emprise, enterprise, excursion, expediting, expeditiousness, exploration, facilitation, fastness, flight, flit, flurry, forwarding, furtherance, goodwill, grand tour, ground speed, haste, hastening, helping along, holy war, hurry, hustle, immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, jaunt, jihad, journey, junket, knots, lightning speed, miles per hour, mission, nimbleness, outing, package tour, peregrination, peregrinations, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, precipitation, preferential treatment, progress, promotion, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, punctualness, quest, quickening, quickness, rapidity, readiness, round pace, round trip, rpm, rubberneck tour, run, rush, rushing, rustle, safari, sally, sharpness, shoot, simplification, simplifying, smartness, smoothing, snappiness, special treatment, speed, speediness, speeding, spryness, stalk, streamlining, summariness, swift rate, swiftness, tour, travels, trek, trip, turn, undertaking, velocity, voyage, war

Etymology
From expeditio.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: nopeus (1), tutkimusretki (3), retkikunta (4)
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Malay: ekspedisi, penerokaan
 * Old English: fyrd (2,3,4), faru (2,3)
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: alldaith

Noun

 * 1) an expedition, a journey, a mission
 * 2) an office

Related terms

 * expeditionschef