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excursion

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1. excursion - Noun

2. excursion - Verb

Meaning

A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

A wandering from a subject; digression.

Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

Source: Webster's dictionary

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many summer excursions to the shore Source: Internet

it was merely a pleasure trip Source: Internet

after cautious sashays into the field Source: Internet

Accounting and gender across times and places: An excursion into fiction. Source: Internet

After her dining excursion on Wednesday, DesBrisay remarked that the entries better represented their respective restaurants than did competition-minded small plates in past years. Source: Internet

Amthor (2003) describes evidence from Oman that indicates the carbon isotope excursion relates to a mass extinction: the disappearance of distinctive fossils from the Precambrian coincides exactly with the carbon-13 anomaly. Source: Internet

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