hostile expedition

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hostile expedition - a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign countryexpedition, military expeditionmilitary campaign, campaign - several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)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 Muslimsarmed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"