Synonyms of the word

expedition

• n. (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
• n. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
• n. (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
• n. (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
• n. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
• n. The group of people making such excursion.

campaign

• n. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
• n. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
• n. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
• v. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
• v. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

celerity

• n. (literary) Speed.
• n. (oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).
• n. (hydrology) The speed with which a perturbation to the flow propagates through the flow domain.

despatch

• n. Alternative form of dispatch (see also Wikipedia's Mentioned in Despatches).
• v. Alternative form of dispatch.

dispatch

• v. To send a shipment with promptness.
• v. To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.
• v. To send a journalist to a place in order to report.
• v. To hurry.
• v. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
• v. To rid; to free.
• v. (obsolete) To deprive.
• v. To destroy quickly and efficiently.
• v. (computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
• n. A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message…
• n. The act of doing something quickly.
• n. A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
• n. (obsolete) A dismissal.

excursion

• n. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
• v. (intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.

expeditiousness

• n. The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.

jaunt

• n. (archaic) A wearisome journey.
• n. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
• v. (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
• v. (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To jolt; to jounce.

journey

• n. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
• n. (obsolete) A day.
• n. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
• n. (obsolete) A day's work.
• v. To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

journeying

• v. present participle of journey.
• n. travel, travelling.

junket

• n. (obsolete) A basket.
• n. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
• n. (obsolete) A delicacy.
• n. A feast or banquet.
• n. A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business…
• n. (gambling) 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often…
• v. To go on or attend a junket.

outing

• n. A pleasure trip or excursion.
• n. An appearance to perform in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant…
• n. The practice of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual without that person's consent.
• v. present participle of out.

quickness

• n. rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity.

rapidity

• n. speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid.
• n. (physics) A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light.
• n. (physics) A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis.

rapidness

• n. The characteristic of being rapid.

sashay

• n. A chassé.
• n. A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
• v. (intransitive) To walk casually or showily; to strut, swagger or flounce.
• v. (intransitive) To chassé when dancing.
• v. (intransitive) To move sideways.

speediness

• n. The property of being fast; swiftness.