expedition

expedition is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
2. noun. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
3. noun. 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; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
4. noun. a journey organized for a particular purpose
5. noun. a journey taken for pleasure

   "many summer excursions to the shore"

   "it was merely a pleasure trip"

   Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, sashay

6. noun. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
7. noun. the property of being prompt and efficient

   "it was done with dispatch"

   Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness

8. noun. an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose

   "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"

Synonyms

excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, sashay, despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness

Common word forms

expeditions

Words from these letters

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