campaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæmˈpeɪn/
ipa: /kəmˈpeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: campaigns
Etymology: From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
Senses: examples: text: an election campaign
text: a military campaign
text: The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign.
text: He was given three days to campaign for the post of president in his school.
text: MILLER: Mr. President, I wonder if you could tell us about some of the audiences you talked to in the 1948 campaign? For instance, I think we'd all be curious about what was the smallest audience you had in the 1948 campaign?
TRUMAN: Well, I'll- it'll sound as if I'm bragging about the 1948 campaign, but I never had an audience under five or ten thousand people in the whole series of trips which we took- about 31,700 miles on the train.
ref: 1965, Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, 0:12 from the start, in MP2002-300 Former President Truman Discusses 1948 Campaign and Other Presidents in History, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.
ref: 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
text: Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. […] A campaign was considered violent, meanwhile, if it involved bombings, kidnappings, the destruction of infrastructure – or any other physical harm to people or property.
ref: 2019 May 13, David Robson, “The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world”, in BBC:
glosses: A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
examples: text: His campaign for Hampshire was very good.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
glosses: The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
glosses: An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
glosses: An excursion into the countryside.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from campaign (noun)
word: advertising campaign
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word: anticampaign
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word: campaign button
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word: campaign group
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word: campaign hat
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word: campaignist
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word: campaignlike
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word: campaign plan
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word: campaignspeak
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word: countercampaign
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word: cybercampaign
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word: e-campaign
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word: election campaign
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word: fear campaign
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word: front porch campaign
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word: midcampaign
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word: military campaign
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word: multicampaign
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word: noncampaign
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word: plan of campaign
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word: political campaign
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word: postcampaign
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word: precampaign
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word: pre-campaign
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word: rumor campaign
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word: rumour campaign
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word: scare campaign
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word: smear campaign
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word: whisper campaign
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word: whispering campaign