Noun expedition has 5 senses
  1. expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition - a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
    --1 is a kind of campaign, military campaign
    --1 has particulars: Crusade
  2. expedition - an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
    --2 is a kind of
    working group, working party
    --2 has particulars: Lewis and Clark Expedition
  3. expedition - a journey organized for a particular purpose
    --3 is a kind of
    journey, journeying
    --3 has particulars:
     scouting trip; campaign, hunting expedition, safari; exploration, geographic expedition
  4. excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay - a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
    --4 is a kind of journey, journeying
    --4 has particulars: airing; field trip
  5. dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness - the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
    --5 is a kind of celerity, quickness, rapidity
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