Campaign
[kæm'peɪn] or [kæm'pen]
Definition
(noun.) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
(noun.) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; 'he supported populist campaigns'; 'they worked in the cause of world peace'; 'the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant'; 'the movement to end slavery'; 'contributed to the war effort'.
(noun.) several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints).
(verb.) go on a campaign; go off to war.
(verb.) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; 'Who's running for treasurer this year?'.
Typed by Leigh--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.
(n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.
(n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.
(n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
(v. i.) To serve in a campaign.
Typist: Osborn
Definition
n. a large open field or plain: the time during which an army keeps the field: an excursion into the country: an organised series of operations in the advocacy of a political or social cause.—v.i. to serve in a campaign.—ns. Campagn′a once equivalent to champaign now used only of the Campagna an undulating mostly uncultivated and unhealthy plain around Rome; Campaign′er one who has served in several campaigns.
Typed by Gordon
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of making a political one, signifies your opposition to approved ways of conducting business, and you will set up original plans for yourself regardless of enemies' working against you. Those in power will lose. If it is a religious people conducting a campaign against sin, it denotes that you will be called upon to contribute from your private means to sustain charitable institutions. For a woman to dream that she is interested in a campaign against fallen women, denotes that she will surmount obstacles and prove courageous in time of need.
Typed by Bernadine
Examples
- Dana, then an officer of the War Department, accompanied me on the Vicksburg campaign and through a portion of the siege. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His Democratic opponents, especially Woodrow Wilson, are, as I write, in the midst of the Presidential campaign of 1912, trying to focus attention on the tariff. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Among others who went was the Secretary of War, who seemed much pleased at the result of his campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Before giving him any order as to the part he was to play in the approaching campaign I invited his views. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This was the first great political campaign for the Republicans in their canvass of 1864. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the spring campaign against Mobile was not made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is great danger of delay resulting in a campaign back to the Ohio River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their indubitable curiosity and zest for learning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He left the war horse that had carried him through his Spanish campaigns behind him when he returned to Italy in order to save freight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He wrote himself a history of Alexander's campaigns, and instituted the famous library of Alexandria. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But Xerxes, like Darius I before him, had conceived a disgust for European campaigns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have found one of ours here--an old soldier of the war, who is seeking bloodless adventures and rest from his campaigns in these sunny lands. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His pursuit of Hood indicated a sluggishness that satisfied me that he would never do to conduct one of your campaigns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An _Outline of History_ cannot map out campaigns; but of the new quality that had come into war, it is bound to take note. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But when he went out campaigning before the people he talked only of three-cent fares and the tax outrages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Bernard Shaw has found time to do no end of campaigning and even the parochial politics of a vestryman has not seemed too insignificant for his Fabian enthusiasm. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To provision an army, campaigning against so formidable a foe through such a country, from wagons alone seemed almost impossible. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This victory pretty much closed the campaigning in the Valley of Virginia. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Louise