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expedition English

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What does expedition mean?
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expedition

An expedition is a long trip that people go on for a specific reason. The expedition across the lasted two weeks.

expedition

a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country a journey organized for a particular purpose an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose an expedition was sent to explore Mars (= excursion, pleasure trip, sashay) a journey taken for pleasure many summer excursions to the shore it was merely a pleasure trip after cautious sashays into the field (= dispatch, despatch) the property of being prompt and efficient it was done with dispatch

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Simple sentences

We encountered a lot of difficulties on the expedition.
This expedition will be expensive.
The expedition passed through the great jungle.
He was a member of the expedition which climbed Mount Everest.
He was the leader of the great expedition.
I anticipate that there will be problems on their expedition.
He never returned from that expedition.
A British expedition conquered Everest in 1953.
He took part in the expedition.
We're talking about who should lead the expedition.
Tom is the expedition leader.
Tom was the expedition leader.
Tom and Mary fell in love while they were on a scientific expedition.
Who was the leader of the expedition?
The expedition has postponed its departure to the Antarctic.
They went on an expedition to the Antarctic.
They went on an expedition to the North Pole.

Movie subtitles

In 1 793, the 1 st Earl Macartney led an expedition to the Qianlong Emperor, in a vain effort to persuade the Chinese to re-open their empire to trade.
Both are ready to leave on a long expedition.
Well, it seems to me that that box we dug up today, with the very peculiar gentleman, over there, is the only find we've made in the past two months that'll bring this expedition any medals from the British Museum.
Your expedition has not been a success.
We don't want this expedition.
We'll have to send an expedition back after them.
It's from the expedition.
The expedition!
I want to tell you how much I've enjoyed being on this expedition with you.
Thank him for making the Pike expedition possible and, I hope, a success.
Now, sir, we'll say goodbye to you unless you care to undertake the Istanbul expedition with us.
Burrows doesn't know about the expedition, sir.
The whole purpose of this expedition.
Thus begins this remarkable expedition. into the valley of the shadow of adversity.
Would you like to finance an expedition?
Will you finance an expedition?
I went back to England, then I was assigned to an expedition in Manchuria.
The expedition must go on!
You're going on an expedition to buy cavalry horses in the Tartar countries.
I'm more than pleased with the brilliant success of your expedition.
It suggests that Metford's trip to an out-of-the way place like Sunset View.. Was a singularly sinister and most uncommon expedition.
David, it's a telegram for you from Utah. It's from the expedition.
Her Grace did inform me. that Capt. Thorpe is undertaking a trading expedition up the Nile.
There are certain members of her court that are asking too many questions. about your latest trading expedition up the Nile.
Wendland visits a leader of the tomb expedition of the Mummy Ma.
And you gave me ten dracma for this expedition?
Concerning my loan for the Corsican expedition, and for a total of 100,000 pounds.
Thus begins this remarkable expedition.
May I close, sir, by warning you against the entire expedition, which I envision with deep apprehension.
I shall confer with him on the safety and conduct of the expedition but immediate authority will rest with him.

News and current affairs

Watch for humans to establish space tourism, return to the moon, and attempt an expedition to Mars.
China - even with its economic miracle since Deng Xiaoping went on his Southern Expedition - is at the other.
A Canadian military commander, asked what he would do if foreign soldiers attacked his country's Far North, calmly replied that he would dispatch an expedition to rescue them.
That military expedition was but the latest in a series of pogroms carried out to intimidate the restive population of what was then called East Pakistan - today's independent Bangladesh.

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