different between expedition vs deportation
expedition
English
Etymology
From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?ksp??d???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
expedition (countable and uncountable, plural expeditions)
- (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
- A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
- (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […] .
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
- he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 33:
- The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting irregular, as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
- A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
- (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
Related terms
Translations
Verb
expedition (third-person singular simple present expeditions, present participle expeditioning, simple past and past participle expeditioned)
- (intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.
- 1950, Sewage and Industrial Wastes Engineering (volume 21, page 588)
- The attendance was given color by the ISO women who graced some of the sessions, attended the social events and expeditioned around the famous spots in Washington and its periphery area.
- 1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (page 185)
- I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company. These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.
- 1950, Sewage and Industrial Wastes Engineering (volume 21, page 588)
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
expedition c
- an expedition, a journey, a mission
- an office
Declension
Related terms
- expeditionschef
expedition From the web:
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deportation
English
Etymology
From Middle French déportation
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /di??p???te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
deportation (countable and uncountable, plural deportations)
- The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
Derived terms
- self-deportation
Translations
Anagrams
- anotopterid, antitorpedo, apteronotid
Danish
Noun
deportation c (singular definite deportationen, plural indefinite deportationer)
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Declension
Further reading
- “deportation” in Den Danske Ordbog
deportation From the web:
- what deportation means
- what deportation does to families
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- what deportation definition
- what deportation order means
- what's deportation order
- what's deportation in spanish
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