Campaign Meaning
/kæmˈpeɪn/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
nounA player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
Sentence Examples
Students took the lead in the campaign against pollution.
Our sales campaign is successful in a big way.
The government recently launched a national road safety campaign.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The politician launched a new ____ to promote better funding for public schools.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The charity started a new ____ to raise money for the local school.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1965, Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, 0:12 from the start, in MP2002-300 Former President Truman Discusses 1948 Campaign and Other Presidents in History, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
"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."
— 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
"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."
— 2019 May 13, David Robson, “The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world”, in BBC:
"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."
— 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
"After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy."
— 1983 May, “Jack King: Merrythought”, in Yachting, volume 153, number 5, page 110:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The politician launched a new ____ to promote better funding for public schools.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The charity started a new ____ to raise money for the local school.