Campaign

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪn

Origin

From French campagne, from Italian campagna ("field, military operation"), from Late Latin campānia ("open country, battlefield"), from Latin campus ("field").

Full definition of campaign

Noun

1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.an election campaign; a military campaignThe company is targeting children in their latest advertising campaign.
• 2012, April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich, 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. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
3. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.She campaigned for better social security.

• 2012, April 19, Josh Halliday, Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, 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.