scouting trip

1. 1.

   an expedition undertaken to gain information

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Questions about scouting trip

What does scouting trip mean?

scouting trip means "an expedition undertaken to gain information".

Is scouting trip a common word?

scouting trip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.