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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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... 100 men at arms in the County of Lincoln," and (among others) "6 hoblers in the vill of Horncastre, to be at Portsmouth, to set out with the King against Philip VI., de Valesco (Valois)." This was the beginning of the campaign of Edward and his son the Black Prince, which terminated with the glorious battle of Cressy and the capture of Calais. "Hoblers" were a sort of yeomanry who, by the terms of their tenure of land were bound to keep a light "nag" ...

— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

... trickling stream of that history gather and deepen and broaden, and roll its mighty tides down the far centuries; and I could note the upspringing of adventurers like myself in the shelter of its long array of thrones: De Montforts, Gavestons, Mortimers, Villierses; the war-making, campaign-directing wantons of France, and Charles the Second's scepter-wielding drabs; but nowhere in the procession was my full-sized fellow visible. I was a Unique; and glad to know that that fact could not be dislodged or challenged for thirteen centuries and a half, for ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... milk? The dairy lobby is very powerful in North America. Its political clout and campaign contributions have the governments of both the United States and especially that of Canada eating out of its hand (literally), providing the dairy industry with price supports. Because of these price ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... of, there another line of. Do we not already know that the name of the Infinite is GOOD, is GOD? Here on earth we are as soldiers, fighting in a foreign land, that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it; seeing well what is at our hand to be done. Let us do it like soldiers, with submission, with courage, with a heroic joy. Behind us, behind each one of us, lie six thousand years of human, effort, human conquest: before ...

— Daily Strength for Daily Needs • Mary W. Tileston

... this second campaign in Doctor Martout. Though he was but an average practitioner and disdained the acquisition of practice far too much, M. Martout was not deficient in knowledge. He had long been studying five or six great questions in physiology, ...

— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About

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