noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shopping expedition/trip
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His shopping trip with Uncle Billy had been a thorough success.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
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Such fishing expeditions were not allowed, and he ordered that the liquidators could claim the public interest immunity.
military
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His military expeditions were sometimes ill-fated.
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And then Bourbollon, that indolent fool, would launch military expeditions to retake the other five planets.
punitive
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Maybe he would even mount a punitive expedition tonight, striking while the iron was hot, and all that.
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No mention was ever made of the 270 deaths at the Apalachicola fort or the punitive expedition against the settlement at Fowlton.
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First Hutus massacred Tutsis, then Tutsi soldiers went on punitive expeditions against the Hutus.
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The punitive expedition of a Merovingian monarch was not quickly forgotten.
scientific
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It's not his first scientific expedition .
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So Rockefeller organized his own scientific expedition to the region: a small team of demographic scientists and health professionals.
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He collected rocks and butterflies and devoured accounts of recent scientific expeditions .
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For a scientific expedition , it was an odd group.
■ NOUN
shopping
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He was allegedly detained at the town's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoon shopping expedition went wrong.
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Later in the day, after their shopping expedition , Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks.
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In the afternoon, I was conducted on a shopping expedition by from Alligarh, an ex-student of ours from Lancaster.
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Small semi-serious shopping expeditions are valued as a relief from the social isolation and the work of housework.
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She was concentrating on her appearance, adding the finishing touches before setting out on yet another shopping expedition .
■ VERB
fish
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That is their excuse to send the Special Branch, traditionally regarded as MI5's footsoldiers, on a disgraceful fishing expedition .
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If anyone asked what they were up to, they planned to say they were on a fishing expedition .
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Then the cliffs come alive with sea birds gliding effortlessly along the coastline on fishing or scavenging expeditions .
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The Senate Whitewater Committee hearings proved nothing, and its license to continue its fishing expedition has expired.
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How is it that they are getting away with this fishing expedition among 90 people?
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I forgot, I had this fishing expedition planned.
join
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John had made quite a serious attempt to stop him joining the mining expedition , and then had dropped it.
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As a result, plans were laid for Gould to join Sturt's surveying expedition to the Murray River later that year.
lead
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He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves.
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The Quebec-born layman Louis Jolliet was to lead the expedition .
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Instead I resolved to lead an expedition to Borneo the following year.
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Chris is hired by Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of the legendary ocean explorer, to lead an expedition aboard the futuristic Antares.
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Ian and Barbara will lead a small expedition into the city from the rear, while the larger group creates a diversion.
mount
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Maybe he would even mount a punitive expedition tonight, striking while the iron was hot, and all that.
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So his son, no doubt unwillingly, was compelled to mount an expedition to discipline the count.
plan
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How do you spend the rest of your time when you're not on or planning an expedition ?
return
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Even hardy explorers needed strongpoints to which they could return after exhausting expeditions into unknown regions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on a fishing expedition
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If anyone asked what they were up to, they planned to say they were on a fishing expedition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The purpose of the expedition was to explore the North American coastline.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both the water and the heat from such active areas would be of great value to a Mars expedition .
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I forgot, I had this fishing expedition planned.
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It's not his first scientific expedition .
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It has been 14 years since we had an expedition book from him.
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The expedition acquired the character of a vast plundering raid.
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The expedition used tried and tested methodology and modified it where necessary.
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The Headmaster was furious and demanded they start the expedition to catch the Bookman immediately.