campaign
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”).
Pronunciation [edit]
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- Rhymes: -eɪn
Noun [edit]
campaign (plural campaigns)
- A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal; as, an election campaign, a military campaign, an advertising campaign.
- The company is targeting children in their latest advertising campaign.
- 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, BBC Sport:
- 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.
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from campaign (noun)
Translations [edit]
series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal
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Verb [edit]
campaign (third-person singular simple present campaigns, present participle campaigning, simple past and past participle campaigned)
- (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
- She campaigned for better social security.
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, the Guardian:
- But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
Translations [edit]
to take part in a campaign
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