HOSTILE EXPEDITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hostile expedition mean? 

• HOSTILE EXPEDITION (noun)
  The noun HOSTILE EXPEDITION has 1 sense:

1. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country

  Familiarity information: HOSTILE EXPEDITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSTILE EXPEDITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

expedition; hostile expedition; military expedition

Hypernyms ("hostile expedition" is a kind of...):

campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hostile expedition"):

Crusade (any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims)