trip(JOURNEY)
[ C ]
the people, vehicles, animals, etc. taking part in an expedition: 踏上征途的一批人（或车、动物等）;考察队;探险队
expedition toThe British expedition to Mount Everest is leaving next month.英国珠穆朗玛峰探险队将于下月启程。

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Journeys
adventure
break-journey
carpool
carpooling
circumnavigation
commuting
field trip
grand tour
haul
jaunt
junket
layover
move
odyssey
ride
round trip
sail
seafaring
trip
wanderings

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expeditionnoun (SPEED)

[ U ]formal
speed in doing something: 迅速;快速;动作敏捷
We will deal with your order with the greatest possible expedition.我们将尽快处理您的订单。

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Hurrying and doing things quickly
accelerate
acceleration
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against time/the clockidiom
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grease
hacky
haste
prompt
promptly
promptness
quickie
rattle something off
rattle through something
snap
stroke
tear

expedition | American Dictionary

expedition
noun[ C ]
us/ˌek·spəˈdɪʃ·ən/
a long, organized trip for a particular purpose, or the people, vehicles, or ships making such a trip:
a military expedition

expedition | Business English

expedition
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /ˌekspɪˈdɪʃən/us
speed in doing something:
We will deal with your order with the greatest possible expedition.

Examples of expedition

expedition
Each of the expeditions had one or more biologist, geologist, meteorologist, and physicist to carry out scientific programs.
Table 1 provides an overview of knowledge flows from the expeditions that were used in the analysis.
Table 2 shows the total of 40 taxa collected by the two expeditions.
There is virtually no permanent climatic weather station above 3500 m and short-term measurements made during expeditions are also rare.
Usually these expeditions operate a long distance away from the base camp, aiming at the procurement of specific resources in specific contexts.
The various thug gangs invariably crossed passes during expeditions, which suggests that they were well acquainted with the routes being used within the thug network.
Furthermore, if either coastal or inland peoples undertook military expeditions against them, coastal forests were used for refuge.
The strengths of the work are the biographies of the explorers, how the expeditions were outfitted and other basic, factual information.
We have asked our government to dispatch punitive expeditions.
The surviving maps were incompetently made and misleading, perhaps deliberately so, with the result that no one really knew where the expeditions had been.
In addition, there are archaeological values in the remains of refuges, together with contemporary artifacts, and shipwrecks of early 19th century sealing expeditions.
He was clearly aware of the political implications of the relief expeditions, within and among nations.
Such responses to polar expeditions will never replace rigorous, balanced, carefully argued non-fiction accounts; but they will continue to complement and complicate polar history.
They also reflected on what had worked well, and what had not worked well, on previous expeditions.
Two organisational types were derived from a study of 36 major polar expeditions.
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fishing expedition
Well, this is nasty work, a fishingexpedition in search of something to feed an unfocused and uninspired intuition.
hunting expedition
There, again, one remembers the extraordinary circumstances in which that visit began, a mere huntingexpedition, and so on.
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