Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
excursion/ɪkˈskɜːʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a short journey, especially one taken for leisure.
- 2 a deviation from a regular activity or course: the firm's disastrous excursion into the US electrical market.
■ technical a movement along a path or through an angle.– derivatives
excursionist noun.– origin C16: from L. excursio(n-), from excurrere ‘run out’.
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