WordNet
military expedition
n. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [syn: expedition, hostile expedition]
Usage examples of "military expedition".
What she had conceived of, initially, as a lean military expedition, had grown by leaps and bounds.
And the more I look at that picture, the more a little voice inside me says, military expedition.
But although you've no weapons but your side arms, and no Marines, that's a military expedition, and if it comes to it, you're in charge.
It prevented, for example, a punitive military expedition from going past a time fault in Georgia, past which a scalping party of Indians from an uncivilized America had retreated.
Not many years ago, the late Laird led out one hundred men upon a military expedition.