expeditions
- 1Plural of expedition.
Funding for the polar expeditions came from a mix of private donors and universities.
Early mapping expeditions charted the coastline long before satellites existed.
Note
A plural that can count trips or the teams that make them. Two polar expeditions may be two voyages or two groups of people, and context decides which. The older meanings of expedition, prompt execution and simple speed, are now obsolete or archaic, so in modern prose the plural almost always means journeys undertaken for a purpose, often military or exploratory, or the companies that undertake them.
expeditions is a form of expedition
expedition, noun: A trip, especially a long one, that a person or group makes for a particular purpose. Full entry
- Forms
- expeditionexpeditions plural
- Spelling
- expedition → expeditions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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