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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expeditionary force
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Christopher then embarked on a diatribe about the difficulties of an expeditionary force in hiatus.
▪ Dalek firepower threatens to destroy the expeditionary force until the attackers hit on the idea of disabling the city's power generators.
▪ In September Parliament sent an expeditionary force against them, under Warwick as admiral.
▪ The last gamble, which would make concession unnecessary, was a new expeditionary force to defeat the rebels.
▪ The Nanny Ogg expeditionary force corkscrewed up the spiral staircase.
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Expeditionary Force

Expeditionary Force is a generic name sometimes applied to a military force dispatched to fight in a foreign country, particularly during World War I and World War II.

Military formations with Expeditionary Force in their name include:

  • Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (2010–present)
  • American Expeditionary Forces : to France (1917–1919)
  • American North Russia Expeditionary Force (1918–1919)
  • Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force : To German New Guinea (1914)
  • First Australian Imperial Force : (1914 -1919)
  • Brazilian Expeditionary Force : to Italy (1943–1945)
  • British Expeditionary Force (World War I) : to France and Belgium (1914–1918)
  • British Expeditionary Force (World War II) : to France and Belgium (1939–1940)
  • Canadian Expeditionary Force : to France and Belgium (1914–1920)
  • Chilean Expeditionary Force in War of the Pacific (1879–1883)
  • Corps expeditionnaire d'Orient : to Gallipoli (1915–1916)
  • Egyptian Expeditionary Force : British in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1916–1919)
  • French Far East Expeditionary Corps : to French Indochina (1945–1956)
  • Greek Expeditionary Force to Korea (1950–1958)
  • Indian Expeditionary Force (1914–1918)
  • Italian Expeditionary Force : French and British in Italy (1917–1918)
  • Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (1941–1945)
  • Japanese Expeditionary Force to China (1939–1945)
  • Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (1915–1916)
  • New Zealand Expeditionary Force (1914–1918) and (1940–1945)
    • Samoan Expeditionary Force from New Zealand in World War I
  • Ottoman Hejaz Expeditionary Force (1916–1919)
  • Ottoman 1st Expeditionary Force (1914–1915)
  • Ottoman 5th Expeditionary Force (1914–1915)
  • Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (1950–1955)
  • Portuguese Expeditionary Corps : to France and Belgium (1917–1918)
  • Russian Expeditionary Force in France (1916–1918)

Usage examples of "expeditionary force".

His face was grey and white, the bags under his eyes big enough to hold the equipment of a fair-sized expeditionary force.

The Expeditionary Force was digging in outside, and this inn at the head of the causeway had been selected as the praetorium at the center of the encampment.

Raj squinted into it as he and his command group rode down the front of the Expeditionary Force's position.

Clean fractures of the femur, likely to heal well, but he was in plaster casts and suddenly primary contender for commander of Crown garrison forces when the rest of the Expeditionary Force moved on.

He half envied the expeditionary force, off in the warm lands, and the hardwood fire crackling in the fireplace was more than welcome.

The Expeditionary Force is big enough to fight a battle with the Squadron -- it isn't big enough to occupy any significant area of land.

They had all heard of Scott and were excited to learn that the Expeditionary Force was indeed on its way.

French casualties during those four days amounted to more than 140,000, or twice the number of the whole British Expeditionary Force in France at the time.

I'm greatly strengthening the Kashubian Expeditionary Force, since a tank with a trained observer has nine times the combat effectiveness of an empty tank.

This was enhanced by the cut of the Expeditionary Force's high-collared uniform and torso harness, a crisscross, tailed, and flare-shouldered affair of black leather worn over tight-fitting trousers.

Most of his Expeditionary Force mates in the mecha hangar were marveling at the two transports that were central to the battalion's strength-the GMU, and the dropship that conveyed it planetside-but to Jack the devices were just modular nightmares: overworked, underpowered, and unimportant.

Jorg or Kaltin could hold the Crown easily enough, with the Expeditionary Force and nobody would expect them to do more.

Jorg or Kaltin could hold the Crown easily enough, with the Expeditionary Force -- and nobody would expect them to do more.

Jorg or Kaltin could hold the Crown easily enough, with the Expeditionary Force —.

Just ask the combined ops team that we sent to Barwhon before the expeditionary force.