hostile expedition

Other forms: hostile expeditions

Definitions of hostile expedition

1. noun

   a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
   synonyms: expedition, military expedition

   types:

   Crusade, crusade

   any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims

   type of:

   campaign, military campaign

   several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)