campaign
//kæmˈpeɪn//
Forms
- Plural
- campaigns
- present (v1)
- campaign
- past (v2)
- campaigned
- past participle (v3)
- campaigned
- present participle
- campaigning
- 3rd person singular
- campaigns
Definitions
1.A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
- 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.
- 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.
2.A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
- His campaign for Hampshire was very good.
3.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.
1.To consistently ride in races for a racing season.
- After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy.
- Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas (Danekas blowers), who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again.
- The "more curious" were the affluent planters who bred and campaigned race horses in quarter races, the only form of racing practiced in the Virginia colony during the first 125 years of its existence.
2.To take part in a campaign.
- She campaigned for better social security.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #618
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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.