Expeditionary meaning

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Relating to or constituting an expedition.
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Sent on or designed for military operations abroad.

The French expeditionary force in Indochina.

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Of or pertaining to an expedition.
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(military) Intended for military operations abroad.
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Expeditionary Sentence Examples

  • The Expeditionary Force was conveyed across the Channel in perfect safety, and its communications safeguarded; and the German mercantile marine was soon cleared from the seas.

  • Dawes, formerly general purchasing agent of the American Expeditionary Force.

  • Burgoyne marched from Canada in June 1 777, with a strong expeditionary force, to occupy Albany and put himself in touch with Howe at the other end of the Hudson.

  • Colonial Troops.These form an expeditionary army corps in France to which are attached the actual corps of occupation to the various colonies, part white, part natives.

  • Roustan therefore hastened to extort from the bey concessions calculated to neutralize the advantages which Italy had hoped to secure by the possession of the Tunis- Goletta line, and at the same time the French government prepared at Toulon an expeditionary corps for the occupation of the Regency.

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