expeditionary
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- s (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad
the French expeditionary force in Indochina
- The Hong Kong-born Wong, 52, has serious expeditionary credentials.
- To ensure their own survival, fierce Magyar expeditionary forces soon extended their realm far over the mountains to cover what is now most of Russia's Balkan satellite empire.
- They were impressed with more reason by the time Graves's expeditionary force was ready to go home.