Expedition /(?)/

Ex·pe·di·tion

Expedition

n.
  1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
    With winged expedition
    Swift as the lightning glance.
  2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
    Putting it straight in expedition.
  3. 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.
    The expedition miserably failed.
    Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains.