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US
/ˌɛkspəˈdɪʃəˌnɛɹi/
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[ UK /ˌɛkspədˈɪʃənəɹi/ ]
[ UK /ˌɛkspədˈɪʃənəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad
the French expeditionary force in Indochina
How To Use expeditionary In A Sentence
- Its stated purpose is to improve current and future expeditionary warfare capabilities.
- Hardly had we secreted ourselves when we spied a flotilla of a Roman expeditionary force sailing hard upstream.
- The expeditionary Army will be no different from the wartime and peacetime armies that preceded it.
- The whole population feared a new war, but an engineer led a mutiny in the fleet and the expeditionary force was called home.
- The concept appears ideal for the wide variety of actions that an expeditionary US military force may face in the twenty-first century.
- The Airmen then convoyed to the city in early April where they replaced a group of Soldiers and became the 2632nd Aerospace Expeditionary Force Transportation Company.
- The award calls for the employee-owned company to provide engineering, information technology and acquisition support to the Commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command in Virginia Beach, Va.
- Yet far from welcoming an effort to provide Europe with a nascent expeditionary capability, he may misgive it.
- Lillie Linebarrier and her band, the Friendly Bonus Expeditionary Force String Band, performed at the Bonus March.
- The Air Force is an expeditionary service, so its security forces should be equally expeditionary.