campaign

CEFRB2

/kæmˈpeɪn/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

01
noun
A planned series of actions to achieve a goal.
02
verb
To work publicly to achieve a political or social goal.

Examples

Our sales campaign is successful in a big way.
Students took the lead in the campaign against pollution.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.

More examples

In context

The government recently launched a national road safety campaign.
The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign.
a military campaign

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The politician launched a new blank to promote better funding for public schools.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

Nearby

Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

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
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
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

Keep campaign

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

Origin

noun

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.

Deep Dive

noun

More examples

Related

Quick test

The politician launched a new blank— to promote better funding for public schools.

Nearby

Origin

noun

The politician launched a new blank to promote better funding for public schools.