What's the difference between abroad and expeditionary?

Abroad


Definition:

  • (adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
  • (adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.
  • (adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.
  • (adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 70 and 80% of human Salmonella infections are contracted abroad, mainly outside the Nordic countries.
  • (2) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (3) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (4) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (5) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (6) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
  • (7) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
  • (8) Salinger stayed abroad for five months, mainly in Vienna.
  • (9) Last year more than 4,000 doctors took the first steps towards working abroad.
  • (10) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
  • (11) The Bank cited slower economic growth at home and abroad, especially in the UK's main export markets, as well as problems in the eurozone, and strains on the banking system.
  • (12) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
  • (13) We might have a patient we can’t do anything for and we have to wait for them to die, knowing if they were abroad they could be saved.
  • (14) And there are many others who cannot leave teaching, and so will take their talent abroad, where they are valued much more highly.
  • (15) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
  • (16) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
  • (17) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
  • (18) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.
  • (19) Four of the index cases had recently travelled abroad.
  • (20) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.

Expeditionary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook wouldn’t confirm the capture, but said the goals of the new expeditionary targeting force include capturing Islamic State leaders.
  • (2) In September 1918, as senior consultant to the American Expeditionary Force, Cushing was in charge of organizing the neurosurgical care for the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives.
  • (3) The Pentagon announced Tuesday a new “expeditionary force” (a propaganda term to avoid saying “ground troops”) that will apparently operate apart from any Iraqi or Syrian rebel allied fighters and be able to conduct cross-border raids in either country.
  • (4) • A 50,000-strong expeditionary force will be formed by 2025 for deployment in crisis spots such as the Middle East.
  • (5) Read more Meanwhile, the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, announced that a permanent new US “expeditionary” force would operate independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time.
  • (6) UA air force colonel Johnny Barnes, the vice commander of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, told reporters Russian fighters in Syria haven’t impeded US airstrikes.
  • (7) That includes the Camp Lejeune marines now serving with – or soon joining – the second marine expeditionary force in Iraq; those with special purpose marine air ground task force in Afghanistan; and those among the 8,000 marines who are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.
  • (8) The Turks prepared to send an expeditionary force to Mecca, to crush the revolt at its source, moving an army corps to Medina by rail.
  • (9) So we have to expect there will be attacks.” After acknowledging Cardin’s death on Saturday, the US command in Iraq revealed on Sunday that a detachment of marines from the 26th marine expeditionary unit (MEU) has been deployed to “support … Iraqi Security Force and Coalition ground operations”.
  • (10) Belgium invaded and broken down - our own fine expeditionary force which King Leopold called to his rescue cut off and captured, escaping as it seemed only by a miracle and with the loss of all its equipment; our ally France out; Italy in against us; all France in the power of the enemy, all its arsenals and vast masses of military material converted to the enemy's use.
  • (11) The officials would not identify the militant by name or provide other details, but the raid appears to be the first major success by the Pentagon’s new expeditionary targeting force that recently began operating in Iraq.
  • (12) He served with the 606 Air Control Squadron in Germany and the 73rd Expeditionary Air Control Squadron in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
  • (13) The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California and is in Hawaii for about a week for training.
  • (14) Corbyn is right: of course Manchester was linked to British foreign policy | Simon Jenkins Read more The “blowback theory”, which blames Islamist terrorism directly on western expeditionary warfare, is both facile and irrelevant in this case.
  • (15) ", the famous poster featuring Britain's secretary of state for war, Lord Kitchener, encouraged more than a million men to enlist to bolster the original expeditionary force deployed to France hopelessly unprepared and unfit for a European war.
  • (16) The detected differences require the development of a basically new organizational model for the provision of medical care to persons engaged in expeditionary-watch labour including mobile medical facilities (physician's ambulatory office, sanatorium department with a unit of psychophysiological relief) subordination of public health institutions to the single management cycle, introduction of a document such as "Healthbook of a watch-keeper", reorientation of northern health units to a certain volume of follow-up measures for securing continuity of observation during watch, inter-watch (home) periods, carrying out of medical examinations before and after the flights.
  • (17) The tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey, which can take off and land like a helicopter but has wings to fly like an airplane, had a “hard-landing mishap” about 11 am, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit said.
  • (18) Trauma may cause morbidity or mortality in expeditionary spaceflight settings.
  • (19) A permanent new US “expeditionary force” will target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, operating independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time, defense secretary Ash Carter has revealed, in a significant escalation of the frontline use of American ground troops in the region.
  • (20) Though defence chiefs said today they will still have significant expeditionary forces, they will not be able to intervene on the scale of recent years.

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