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   Ex·cur·sion

   /ikˈskərZH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. a short journey or trip, especially one engaged in as a leisure activity: "an excursion to Mount Etna"
   • 2. a deviation from a regular pattern, path, or level of operation: "the firm's disastrous excursion into the US electrical market"
   • ▪ a digression: archaic "pardon this long excursion on this subject"
   • 3. an instance of the movement of something along a path or through an angle: technical "large excursions of the hip and knee joint"
   • 4. a military sortie. archaic

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘act of running out’, also ‘sortie’ in the phrase alarums and excursions (see alarum): from Latin excursio(n-), from the verb excurrere ‘run out’, from ex- ‘out’ + currere ‘to run’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. excursionist noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

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