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   excursion

   /ɪkˈskəːʃn/

   noun

   • 1. a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity: "an excursion to London Zoo"
   • 2. a deviation from a regular activity or course: "the firm's disastrous excursion into the US electrical market"
   • ▪ a digression: archaic "pardon this long excursion on this subject"
   • 3. a movement of something along a path or through an angle: technical "large excursions of the hip and knee joint"

   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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   • X

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   • C

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