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noun

Campaign n.

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

(Mil.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.

Political operations preceding an election, by candidates, their assistants, and supporters, for the purpose of convincing voters to vote for the candidate. It usually consists of one or more methods of contacting voters including advertising, distribution or mailing of printed leaflets or letters; speeches, interviews with news media, and door-to-door visits with potential voters.

Hence: Any coordinated effort to contact potential supporters or customers and solicit their support or patronage; as, an advertising campaign.

(Metal.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

verb

Campaign v. i. To serve in a campaign.

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Etymology of 'Campaign'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Campaign" Quotes from Famous Books

... the impression that I'm going out to take charge of the blessed campaign. So if she talks about 'my dear son's army,' don't let her down, like a good chap—for she'll think either me a ...

— The Red Planet • William J. Locke

... actually welcome him, however repugnant it may be to our feelings. That's what we must do, Sylvia. He must have no suspicion that we are working against him. We must lull him to sleep. That is our only way to keep Wallie Hine with us. So that, Sylvia, must be our plan of campaign." ...

— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason

... on. Columbus was kept in a state of irritating anxiety at Cordova, when he heard that the sovereigns were about to commence that campaign which ended in the expulsion of the Moors from Spain. Aware that many months must pass before they would give their minds to the subject if he allowed the present moment to slip by, he pressed for a decisive reply to his proposals with an earnestness that would admit ...

— Notable Voyagers - From Columbus to Nordenskiold • W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith

... be valuable evidence in the files— advertisements, letters, circulars, folders and other publicity matter that has been used in past campaigns. In the most progressive business houses, every campaign is thoroughly tested out; arguments, schemes, and talking points are proved up on test lists, the law of averages enabling the correspondent to tell with mathematical accuracy the pulling power of every argument he has ever used. The record of tests; the letters that have fallen down and the letters ...

— Business Correspondence • Anonymous

... having a touch of Cuban fever, my only unpleasant reminiscence of the Santiago campaign. Accordingly, I spent the afternoon in the house lying on the sofa, with a bright fire burning and Mother in the rocking-chair, with her knitting, beside me. I felt so glad that I was not out somewhere in the ...

— Letters to His Children • Theodore Roosevelt

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