expedition

expedition /,ekspi'diʃn/
  • danh từ
    • cuộc viễn chinh; đội viễn chinh
    • cuộc thám hiểm; đoàn thám hiểm
    • cuộc hành trình, cuộc đi; đoàn người đi (trong cuộc hành trình)
    • tính chóng vánh, tính mau lẹ, tính khẩn trương
 cuộc hành trình

Xem thêm: military expedition, hostile expedition, excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay, dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness



expedition

Từ điển Collocation

expedition noun

ADJ. great, major Finally, the great expedition set off for the long journey to the Holy Land. | small | joint, international The British agreed to a joint expedition with the French. | foreign | successful | collecting, fishing, foraging, hunting, shopping | archaeological, scientific | military, naval | punitive In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. | Antarctic, Everest, etc.

VERB + EXPEDITION go on, make He had made two expeditions to Spain to study wild plants. | embark on, set off/out on, undertake She was about to embark on a major expedition. | head, lead | join | organize, plan | launch, mount They plan to launch an expedition into the mountains. | send

EXPEDITION + VERB leave, set off/out, start | return The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left. | reach sth On 21 January the expedition reached the South Pole.

EXPEDITION + NOUN leader, member

PREP. on an/the ~ She was out on a shopping expedition. | ~ against He led a military expedition against the rebels. | ~ into an expedition into the interior of Australia | ~ to a naval expedition to West Africa

PHRASES a leader/member of an expedition

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country; military expedition, hostile expedition
  • an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose

    an expedition was sent to explore Mars

  • a journey organized for a particular purpose
  • a journey taken for pleasure; excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay

    many summer excursions to the shore

    it was merely a pleasure trip

    after cautious sashays into the field

  • the property of being prompt and efficient; dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness

    it was done with dispatch

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

expeditions
syn.: haste hurry journey pilgrimage promptness speed swiftness trek trip