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Expedition

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

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Narrower term 4

Airing 76% connected

of Air

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Campaign 76% connected

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

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Crusade 76% connected

Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exploration 76% connected

The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration…

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Broader term 8

Campaign 76% connected

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

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Celerity 76% connected

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

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Journey 76% connected

The travel or work of a day.

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Journeying 76% connected

of Journey

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Quickness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Rapidity 76% connected

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvem…

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Rapidness 76% connected

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

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Speediness 76% connected

The quality or state of being speedy.

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Expeditionary 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

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Expeditionary 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

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Expeditious 74% connected

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celeri…

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Expeditious 74% connected

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celeri…

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Synonym 6

Despatch 92% connected

Same as Dispatch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Dispatch 92% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excursion 92% connected

A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Jaunt 92% connected

To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Junket 92% connected

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Outing 92% connected

The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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