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expedition
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plural expeditions
plural expeditions
Learner's definition of EXPEDITION
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: a journey especially by a group of people for a specific purpose (such as to explore a distant place or to do research)远征；探险；考察 — also used in a playful way to refer to a short trip for a specific purpose（也用于戏谑，指为特定目的的）短途出行
- organize/mount/launch a mountain-climbing expedition组织/开展/发起登山探险
- a scientific expedition to Antarctica赴南极洲的科学考察
- a shopping expedition购物之行
- fishing expeditions钓鱼之行
◊ The phrase fishing expedition is sometimes used in a disapproving way, especially in U.S. English, to describe a situation in which a person or group looks for evidence that someone has done something wrong without having a good reason to believe the evidence exists.非法调查（有时用作贬义，尤用于美国英语，指在无正当理由的情况下专为挖掘某人罪证而进行的调查行动）
- Critics charge that the government investigation is a politically motivated fishing expedition.批评者指责称，这项政府调查是一次由政治目的驱使的非法调查。
2
: a group of people who travel together to a distant place : a group of people who go on an expedition远征队；探险队；考察队
- The (members of the) expedition discovered an ancient burial site.这支考察队发现了一座古墓。
expedition
noun
ex·pe·di·tion ˌek-spə-ˈdi-shən 
Example Sentences
a scientific expedition to Antarctica an avid mountain climber, always on an expedition to some far-off corner of the world
Recent Examples on the Web Haley, 66, who was involved in logistics and managing problems on the expedition, exited the cave to find another caver and an assistant fire chief from the local fire department. 
Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022 Kamoya’s most significant find came in 1984, on an expedition around Kenya’s Lake Turkana with Richard Leakey and Alan Walker, an anthropologist from Penn State. BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022 Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist and writer who was also on this expedition, said something that gave me pause. New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Evans hadn't been able to truly inspect each item since they were recovered in the early 1990s and on another expedition in 2014. Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022 Shark conservationist Kinga Philipps and scientist Tristan Guttridge embark on an expedition through the remote islands of Tahiti to investigate local legends and mysteries about massive tiger sharks. al, 23 July 2022 Champollion was 7 years old when this general with Pharaonic ambitions embarked on the expedition. Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 The Egyptian men and children hired to work on the expedition, however, received almost no recognition. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022 On the expedition, he and she are supposed to chart resource-rich new lands for colonial conquest. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 6 May 2022 See More
Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022 Kamoya’s most significant find came in 1984, on an expedition around Kenya’s Lake Turkana with Richard Leakey and Alan Walker, an anthropologist from Penn State. BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022 Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist and writer who was also on this expedition, said something that gave me pause. New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Evans hadn't been able to truly inspect each item since they were recovered in the early 1990s and on another expedition in 2014. Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022 Shark conservationist Kinga Philipps and scientist Tristan Guttridge embark on an expedition through the remote islands of Tahiti to investigate local legends and mysteries about massive tiger sharks. al, 23 July 2022 Champollion was 7 years old when this general with Pharaonic ambitions embarked on the expedition. Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 The Egyptian men and children hired to work on the expedition, however, received almost no recognition. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022 On the expedition, he and she are supposed to chart resource-rich new lands for colonial conquest. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 6 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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The first known use of expedition was in the 15th century Phrases Containing expedition
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