Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or constituting an expedition.
- adjective Sent on or designed for military operations abroad.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or composing an expedition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an expedition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
expedition - adjective military Intended for
military operations abroad
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad
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Examples
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America, with its efficient armed forces, with its unique experience in expeditionary missions, will be in an excellent position during the coming debt-renegotiating rounds.
Whose Debt is it, Anyway?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Such developments, as Rumsfeld saw them, would help the United States react in expeditionary style to unforeseen emergencies, prosecute the war on terrorism, and hedge against a rising Chinese military without unnecessarily provoking it.
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Such developments, as Rumsfeld saw them, would help the United States react in expeditionary style to unforeseen emergencies, prosecute the war on terrorism, and hedge against a rising Chinese military without unnecessarily provoking it.
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In layman's terms, I suppose the difference is that, in expeditionary warfare, we move in to beat up the natives while, in counter-insurgency, we stay still and they beat us up.
Defence – where the debate should lie Richard 2006
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The building is known as the expeditionary judicial facility.
At least $500 million has been spent since 9/11 on renovating Guantanamo Bay 2010
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The building is known as the expeditionary judicial facility.
At least $500 million has been spent since 9/11 on renovating Guantanamo Bay 2010
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As I said, if we are building the kind of foreign service and -- that is expeditionary, that is going into very difficult, dangerous areas, to carry out the civilian side of the work of helping a country like Afghanistan rebuild, then we should think about what are the benefits of that service?
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The brigade's mission has been called expeditionary because of the undeveloped region to which it's assigned.
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Many Germans oppose giving NATO an "expeditionary" function.
Doug Bandow: Germany's Lesson for America: Wars of Necessity, not Choice 2010
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Many Germans oppose giving NATO an "expeditionary" function.
Doug Bandow: Germany's Lesson for America: Wars of Necessity, not Choice 2010
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