Campaign

/kæmˈpeɪn/ · noun

Meaning

A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal..

Definitions by Sense

1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
2. (sports) A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
3. (roleplaying games) A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
4. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
5. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
6. (obsolete) An excursion into the countryside.
7. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
8. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

Example Sentences

an election campaign

a military campaign

The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign.

He was given three days to campaign for the post of president in his school.

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.

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.

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.

His campaign for Hampshire was very good.

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Word Forms

• campaigns
• campaigning
• campaigned

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