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cam⋅paign

  [kam-peyn]
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–noun
1. Military.
a. military operations for a specific objective.
b. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
2. a systematic course of aggressive activities for some specific purpose: a sales campaign.
3. the competition by rival political candidates and organizations for public office.
–verb (used without object)
4. to serve in or go on a campaign: He planned to campaign for the candidate. He campaigned in France.
–verb (used with object)
5. to race (a horse, boat, car, etc.) in a number or series of competitions.
Origin:
1620–30; < F campagne < It campagna < LL campānia level district, equiv. to L camp(us) field + -ān(us) -an + -ia -ia

Related forms:
cam⋅paign⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. drive, effort, push, offensive.
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cam·paign   (kām-pān')   
n.  

  1. A series of military operations undertaken to achieve a large-scale objective during a war: Grant's Vicksburg campaign secured the entire Mississippi for the Union.

  2. An operation or series of operations energetically pursued to accomplish a purpose: an advertising campaign for a new product; a candidate's political campaign.

intr.v.   cam·paigned, cam·paign·ing, cam·paigns
To engage in an operation planned to achieve a certain goal: campaigned through the jungles of Vietnam; campaigned for human rights.

[French campagne, from Italian campagna, field, military operation, from Late Latin campānia, open country, battlefield, from Latin campus, field.]
cam·paign'er n.
Synonyms: These nouns denote a vigorous concerted effort to accomplish a purpose: a fund-raising campaign; a crusade for improved social services; a drive to sell bonds; a push to get the bill passed.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

campaign 
1647, from Fr., campagne "open country," from O.Fr. champagne "open country" (suited to military maneuvers), similar to It. campagna, from L.L. campania "level country," from L. campus "a field" (see campus). Old armies spent winters in quarters and took to the "open field" to seek battle in summer. Extension of meaning from military to political is Amer.Eng. 1809. The verb is first attested 1701.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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