Definitionadj. (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad
Last update: October 16, 2015
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Colonial Troops.These form an expeditionary army corps in France to which are attached the actual corps of occupation to the various colonies, part white, part natives. [Please select]
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The day after war was declared, recruiting was begun for an expeditionary force of 21,000 men. [Please select]
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"But," said the advocates of preparedness, "we might have to send an expeditionary force." [Please select]
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She had just sent out younger sons and surplus people, emigrants and expeditionary forces. [Please select]
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German Samoa, the first to be taken, surrendered to the New Zealand expeditionary force August 29. [Please select]
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We shall probably remain in New York until the first United States expeditionary force sets forth. [Please select]
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The expeditionary force under General Victor which was to have occupied Louisiana had never left port. [Please select]
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"I come from the American expeditionary forces in France," he said quietly. [Please select]
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Events, however, were to prove that it is easier for an expeditionary force to capture a town at such a distance from the home-base of supplies, than to retain it. [Please select]
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The civilian is inclined to think of war in terms of the mobile warfare of other days, when armies were rarely more than some odd thousands strong and were usually no more than expeditionary forces. [Please select]
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