Etymology

expedition

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Today it means: A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory. Full definition →

Middle French expédition ← Latin expeditio
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  1. Latin · derived fromexpeditio
  2. Middle French · derived fromexpédition
  3. English todayexpedition

From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.