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HOSTILE EXPEDITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
Synonyms:
expedition; hostile expedition; military expedition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
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