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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.
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Campaigned
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used with object)
5.
to race (a horse, boat, car, etc.) in a number or series of competitions.
Origin:
1620–30; < French campagne < Italian campagna < Late Latin campānia level district, equivalent to Latin camp(us) field + -ān(us) -an + -ia -ia
1620–30; < French campagne < Italian campagna < Late Latin campānia level district, equivalent to Latin camp(us) field + -ān(us) -an + -ia -ia
Related forms
cam·paign·er, noun
coun·ter·cam·paign, noun
pre·cam·paign, noun, adjective
re·cam·paign, verb
un·cam·paign·ing, adjective
Synonyms
2. drive, effort, push, offensive.
2. drive, effort, push, offensive.
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Word Origin & History
campaign
1640s, "operation of an army in the field," from Fr. campagne "campaign," lit. "open country," from O.Fr. champagne "open country" (suited to military maneuvers), from L.L. campania "level country" (cf. It. campagna, Sp. campaña, Port. campanha), from L. campus "a field" (see
EXPAND 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. Related: Campaigned; campaigning.
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