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Campaign

Definitions: Campaign

Campaign

Noun

1. A race between candidates for elective office.

2. 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".

3. Several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints).

4. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).

Verb

1. Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "Who's running for treasurer this year?".

2. Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate".

3. Go on a campaign; go off to war.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "campaign" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Campaign

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Metallurgy

The period during which a blast furnace is in continuous operation; the period between the blow-in and the blow-out of a blast furnace. Source: European Union. (references)
 The working life of a furnace between major repairs. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. The period during which a furnace is continuously in operation b. The working life of a tank or other melting unit between major coldrepairs. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

A series of operations in which material of the same origin or for the same purpose is processed in a fabrication plant or reprocessing plant. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Campaign

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A campaign is an organized effort to attract voters, with the goal of winning an election. A concentrated effort to reach a specific political goal (like banning genetically modified organisms) by NGOs would also be called campaign.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Campaign."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Campaign

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField
CABINEnglishCampaign Against Building Industry NationalizationN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Campaign

Synonyms: cause (n), crusade (n), drive (n), effort (n), hunting expedition (n), military campaign (n), movement (n), political campaign (n), safari (n), agitate (v), fight (v), press (v), push (v), run (v), take the field (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Campaign

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Conduct

Execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.

Government

Verb: run for office, stand for office; campaign, stump; throw one's hat in the ring; announce one's candidacy.

Political contribution, campaign contribution; political action committee, PAC.

Negative campaigning, dirty politics, smear campaign.

Noun: politics; political science; candidacy, campaign, campaigning, electioneering; partisanship, ideology, factionalism.

Get-out-the-vote campaign, political education.

Politician, activist; candidate, aspirant, hopeful, office-seeker, front-runner, dark horse, long shot, shoo-in; supporter, backer, political worker, campaign worker; lobbyist, contributor; party hack, ward heeler; regional candidate, favorite son; running mate, stalking horse; perpetual candidate, political animal.

Warfare

Serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath.

Battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations; mobilization; state of siege; battlefield, theater of operations; (arena); warpath.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Campaign

English words defined with "campaign": ad campaign, advertising campaign, ahead, anti-war movementBathorse, battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, bell ringer, bell ringing, bid, brassbound, Bull Moose Party, bull's eyecampaign for governor, campaign hat, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, canvas, canvass, canvassingDardanelles, Dardanelles campaign, During good behaviorelectioneering, evocative, expedition, exposurefast, firm, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising efforthandler, hostile expeditionin the lead, inefficientJackson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jacksonloyalmark, military campaign, military expedition, military operationnaval campaignOkinawa, Okinawa campaign, operation, out frontPetersburg, Petersburg Campaign, political campaign, product introduction, Progressive Party, promiscuous, public-relations campaignredolent, redolent of, reform, remindful, reminiscent, reminiscent ofsales campaign, satiric, satirical, senate campaign, spearhead, Spotsylvaniatake the field, To bet on the field, torchbearer, trueheartedunstrainedVicksburgwar, war chest, whispering campaign, Wilderness Campaign. (references)
Specialty definitions using "campaign": '90 Plus FiveBat-horses, Because You Count, Blue GuardsCampaign Wig, community planning director, community chestdirect marketing diagnostic service, director of major or capital gifts, director of recruitment, director, advertising, DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, director, council of social agencies, director, federated fund, DIRECTOR, FIELD SERVICES, DIRECTOR, FUNDS DEVELOPMENT, director, united fundexecutive, community planningFederation Against Software TheftGrebenski CossacksLEGISLATIVE ASSISTANTMANAGER, ADVERTISING, minor mediaNational Asthma Campaign, National Enterprise CampaignPlan of Campaign, public-relations practitioner, PUBLIC-RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVEROOSEVELTsales promotion director, Service Medal, Shield of Expectation, species-area relationship, strategic mining, supplementary media. (references)

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Modern Usage: Campaign

DomainUsage

Screenplays

But I would have liked that campaign. If my friend Andy Shepherd had shown up, I would have liked that campaign very much. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

The rest must wait until the victorious culmination of my campaign in Italy. (Desirée; writing credit: Annemarie Selinko; Daniel Taradash)

He thwarted your campaign for governor, you ran over his son, he saved the plant from meltdown, his wife painted you in the nude (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

So if the break-in was just one incident in a campaign of sabotage that began a whole year before Watergate (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

Understandable. Well, when it's working again congratulate it on a good campaign. You did very well. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Clever

Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers (references; author: unknown)

Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Campaign (1968)

Ma's Wipe Your Feet Campaign (1921)

Mrs. Carter's Campaign (1913)

A Campaign Manageress (1913)

Campaign (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Campaign

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72 (reference)

  • Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (A Forgotten Realms(r) Campaign) (reference)

  • Magic of Faerun (Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms Campaign Accessory) (reference)

  • Sharpe's Sword: Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign June and July, 1812 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Homefront Campaign (reference)

  • Historic Battles of the Civil War Vol. 1: Chickamauga!/ The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 (reference)

  • The Petersburg Campaign (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Campaign

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Photo Album: Campaign

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In the Jupiter campaign, scientists wanted to see how the comet collisions affected the Jovian ...Credit: NASA.

Bamberg transit set up Astro party of E. J. Brown Part of World Longitude Campaign.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Short wave radio recorder Astro party of E. J. Brown Part of World Longitude Campaign.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

E. J. Brown using Davidson meridian telescope Astro party of E. J. Brown Part of World Longitude Campaign.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp on eastern Lisianski Island Island was station for World Longitude Campaign Nesting place for albatross and other marine bird species Astro party of E. J. Brown.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Smallpox eradication campaign in Uganda. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr..

Millions of vaccine doses contributed to the success of the worldwide eradication campaign. / WHO/Novosti photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Smoking? No Way! : Wimbledon Champion / National Campaign Against Drug Abuse[,] Health Department...Western Australia.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Fumigation] : [Fumigation of sheds in New Orleans, yellow fever campaign, 1905].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[U.S. Public Health Service] : [Yellow Fever Campaign, New Orleans, La.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Campaign

AuthorQuotation

Wendell Willkie

It was a bit of campaign oratory.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Campaign

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In this campaign, the object held out to the French soldier, son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for the neck of another.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Campaign

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Since 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million people were infected, the campaign has eliminated much of the disease. (references)

In the mid-1950s, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a massive worldwide campaign to eliminate malaria. (references)

A national campaign (the "Back to Sleep" campaign) was launched in 1994 to promote supine positioning during sleep. (references)

Business

They are conducting an aggressive promotion and advertising campaign. (references)

Efforts to re-educate monks and nuns continued as part of the campaign. (references)

In 1995, the Chinese Government launched a massive anti-corruption campaign. (references)

Children

El Salvador

A separate informational campaign was aimed at communities with high levels of violence. (references)

Pakistan

Since 2000 the Government has conducted a well-publicized campaign to encourage polio vaccinations. (references)

Haiti

In early September, President Aristide launched "Project Alpha," a nationwide campaign to increase the level of literacy. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mozambique

Article 19 and the LDH monitored media coverage of the national electoral campaign. (references)

Zambia

During its 1991 campaign, the MMD promised to privatize the government-owned media. (references)

Morocco

In 1998 the Gendarmerie Royale began a campaign to combat such abuses within its ranks. (references)

Discrimination

Tanzania

Religious and ethnic tensions in society continue to exist; however, the Government issued several statements in 2000 encouraging religious and ethnic tolerance during the election campaign. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Army leaders resisted this campaign. (references)

Lebanon

USAID has supported the anti-corruption campaign in Lebanon. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

International organizations and NGO's continued a widespread public education campaign on mines. (references)

China

In April the Government began a national "strike-hard" campaign against "violent and organized" crime. (references)

Zimbabwe

Pfebve's brother was killed during the violent campaign that preceded the 2000 parliamentary elections. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

No progress was made in the case of mass sterilizations promoted among women of the Pataxo tribe of Bahia by Federal Deputy Dr. Roland Lavigne in exchange for votes during his 1994 electoral campaign. (references)

Brazil

Women were reluctant to have children because of the high level of poverty in the community, and campaign workers allegedly convinced them that sterilization was the only effective form of birth control. (references)

Namibia

Reports from the NSHR and in the press claim that civilians from the Mafwe and Kxoe San ethnic groups were targeted for harassment during the police campaign against Caprivi separatists in 1998 and continued during the year. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

It also created an Interministerial Committee and launched a public relations campaign to improve the image of the office and the Roma minority in general. (references)

Turkmenistan

While Russian remained common in commerce and everyday life, during the year, the Government has intensified its campaign to conduct official business solely in Turkmen. (references)

Iraq

Captured government documents included in a 1998 HRW report describe special all-Yazidi military detachments formed during the 1988-89 Anfal campaign to "pursue and attack" Muslim Kurds. (references)

Political Economy

Sri Lanka

Several civilian deaths have occurred due to an air campaign by the air force against LTTE targets. (references)

Pakistan

Some aspects of the Government's implementation of its anticorruption campaign violated due process. (references)

Hungary

With Hungarian elections scheduled for the spring of 2002, all major parties are focused on the election campaign. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

However, several political parties did campaign covertly. (references)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The parties generally adhered to the code during the campaign. (references)

Maldives

Would-be nominees for president are not permitted to campaign for the nomination. (references)

Trade

China

In August 1998, the Customs Administration launched an ambitious program to standardize enforcement of customs regulations throughout China as part of a larger campaign to combat smuggling. (references)

Ukraine

The project aims at improvement of energy efficiency in 1302 Kiev's public buildings and consists of the following main components: (i) Energy Efficiency Improvements in Buildings; (ii) Technical Audit and Design of the Retrofits; and (iii) Institutional Support: PIU, project management, public awareness campaign, training and equipment, social assistance support. (references)

Pakistan

The GOP's Export Promotion Bureau has led a successful campaign to provide free advisory service covering planning, documentation, interpretation into local environment, implementation and certification processes for ISO 9000. In the last three years, 2000 Pakistani companies have obtained ISO 9000 certification and about 1500 more are at different stages of implementing ISO standards. (references)

Travel

Russia

Anti-American demonstrations during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia briefly affected Embassy services. (references)

Women

Peru

PROMUDEH continued its public education campaign to sensitize government employees and the public to domestic violence. (references)

Ghana

The CHRAJ and human rights NGO's have mounted a campaign to end this traditional practice, but have met with little success. (references)

Worker Rights

Costa Rica

The campaign addressed child labor and explained existing legislation to audiences of different age groups. (references)

Chad

The unions were supportive of the opposition and played an active role in the presidential election campaign. (references)

Australia

The manufacturing workers' union vowed to continue its campaign for accumulated employee entitlements to be paid into Manusafe. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Campaign

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Al Hunt

Bob, you know, John Sununu's victory just broke Democratic hearts. They thought they could win that seat. He ran a good campaign and also for him, he was fortunate, he inherited his mother's, as opposed to his father's charm.

Dennis Miller

It's time to change our way of thinking and take the war on drugs out of the political hot button campaign topics.

John McCain

Maybe they'll be most surprised about the part of the presidential campaign where I described my failure in standing up for what I believed in, as far as the confederate flag is concerned.

Robert Novak

General Richard Myers, there has been testimony by generals and admirals before Congress that the U.S. forces, after the campaign in Afghanistan, are tired, overextended, depleted.

Ross Perot

Well, again, we do need campaign reform. It's very difficult to get, if this does occur, it's an incremental first step. That's better than nothing. But it's a long way from where the whole process needs to go.

Rush Limbaugh

Soft money was invented by creative souls as a way around the current campaign finance structure.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Campaign

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Madison

1809-1817The campaign has, indeed, in its latter stages in one quarter been less favorable than was expected, but in addition to the importance of our naval success the progress of the campaign has been filled with incidents highly honorable to the American arms.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829One hundred expeditions of circumnavigation like those of Cook and La Prouse would not burden the exchequer of the nation fitting them out so much as the ways and means of defraying a single campaign in war.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837This campaign has evinced the efficient organization of the Army and its capacity for prompt and active service.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Fifteen years ago North Vietnam, with the logistical support of Communist China and the Soviet Union, launched a campaign to impose a Communist government on South Vietnam by instigating and supporting a revolution.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Too many Americans feel powerless against the influence of private lobbying groups and the unbelievable flood of private campaign money which threatens our electoral process.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001I ask you to pass campaign finance reform.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Campaign

"Campaign" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Campaign" is used about 9,195 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.06%8,9251,072
Lexical Verb (infinitive)2.67%24619,009
Lexical Verb (base form)0.23%2176,261
Noun (proper)0.04%4175,879
                    Total100.00%9,195N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Campaign

Expressions using "campaign": ad campaign advertising campaign aggressive campaign campaign against smth. campaign biography campaign for campaign for equal rights campaign for governor campaign for smth. campaign hat campaign worker Dardanelles campaign election campaign electoral campaign go on campaign trail go on the campaign launch a campaign launch campaign launch election campaign military campaign National Asthma Campaign National Enterprise Campaign naval campaign Okinawa campaign outright campaign peace campaign Petersburg Campaign plan of campaign political campaign press campaign projected campaign publicity campaign purity campaign recruitment campaign safety first campaign sales campaign senate campaign smear campaign sowing campaign temperance campaign wage a campaign whispering campaign Wilderness Campaign. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "campaign": campaign-finance, campaign-i, Campaign-law, campaign-related, campaign-weary.

Ending with "campaign": Pre-campaign.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Campaign

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

campaign

414

political campaign

314

email campaign

307

human right campaign

192

campaign web site

139

campaign communication information

135

campaign management

133

email marketing campaign

125

advertising campaign

113

campaign chrissy dick gay gephardt gephardt politics presidential

103
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Campaign

Language Translations for "campaign"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

veldtog. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

fushatë (crusade, drive), ekspeditë ushtarake, bëj fushatë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حملة عسكرية أو سياسية, ‏حملة بشكل عام, ‏حملة (attack, drive, expedition, operation, push). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кампания (assault, drive), акция (action, crusade, share). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

風潮 (storm and stress), 運動 (movement, sports), 竞选 (campaigning, Election), 競選活動 , 征戰 (expedition). (various references)

   

Czech

  

výprava (get up, outfit), váleèná výprava, tažení (draught, haul), kampaò (drive), akce (action, activity, drive, venture). (various references)

   

Danish

  

campagne, ovnrejse (life of a furnace, working life of a furnace), ovnkampagne (life of a furnace, working life of a furnace). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

campagne (poop, season), veldtocht. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kampanjo. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

uunin käyttöikä (life of a furnace, working life of a furnace). (various references)

   

French

  

campagne. (various references)

   

German

  

Kampagne (push, season), feldzug (expedition, maneuver, manoeuvre), Kampf (action, battle, bout, combat, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, match, scuffle, struggle, tussle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καμπάνια, εκστρατεία (expedition). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kampány (drive, electioneering, run), hadjárat (canvassing, drive, expedition). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

perang (war), mengkampanyekan, kampanye, berpolitik. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Campagna (country, countryside, estate, land, rural area, rural district, rural zone, season). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(away series, expedition, tour). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いくさ (battle, fight, war), キャンペーン , カンパ (fund raising), じゅうぐ", え"せい (away series, complaint, expedition, leaden, made of lead, malleability, murmur, pessimism, tour, weariness with life), えき (advantage, battle, being beneficial, benefit, divination, fluid, fortune-telling, gain, large, liquid, profit, station, use, war). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

페인. (various references)

   

Manx

  

troddan (campaigning, combat, contest, fight, fray, match; herd of cattle; pastureland, quarrel), magher (chase, fertile land, field, machar, sphere), cahnys, caggey (battle, clash, combat, fight, scrap, war). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ampaigncay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

campanha (agitation, country, countryside, heartbeat, life of a furnace, season, warfare, working life of a furnace). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

campanie (drive, show), organiza o campanie, lua parte la o campanie, expediţie (dispatching, excursion, expedition, sending). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кампания (crusade). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

voditi kampanju, kampanja. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

campaña (agitation, countryside, crackdown, life of a furnace, season, working life of a furnace). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kampanj (drive), fälttåg. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sefere çıkmak, seferberlik (levee en masse, mobilization), sefer (expedition, headway, journey, navigation, ploy, run, voyage), savaşmak (battle, battle against, battle for, conflict, contend, fight, fight a battle, make war, strive against, strive with, struggle, wage war against, wage war on smb., war), savaş (battle, combat, conflict, crusade, fight, fighting, fray, struggle, war, warfare, wartime), mücâdele vermek (scramble), mücâdele (battle, combat, contest, fight, fighting, fray, hassle, race, scramble, struggle, tug, tug of war, tussle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), kampanyaya katılmak, kampanya, adaylığını koymak (contest a seat, contest an election, put oneself forward, run). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яцrью (march 2). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кампанія (crusade), операція (procedure), брати участь у поході, боротьба (battle, combat, debate, effort, fight, fighting, grapple, strife, struggle, tussle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), проводити кампанію, похід (crusade, procession). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chiến dịch cuộc vận động. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ymgyrch (expedition), rhyfelgyrch. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Campaign

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

ugnim. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

campus, expeditione, expeditionem, militia, militiae, militiam. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

campania. (various references)

Old French900-1400

champagne. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Campaign

Derivations

Words beginning with "campaign": campaigned, campaigner, campaigners, campaigning, campaigns. (additional references)

Words ending with "campaign": countercampaign. (additional references)

Words containing "campaign": countercampaigns. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Campaign" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calpain, campagn, Campagnac, Campagnie, campaigh, campaigne, campain, campaine, campaing, campaingn, campaogn, campiagn, campian, Campine, campkin, capaign, compaign, compaignye, compain, compaing, Compeigne, Compiegne, Kamphaeng. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Campaign"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "campaign" (pronounced kampā"n)
5-a m p ā" nchampagne, Champaign.
3-p ā" npain, pane.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Campaign

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-m-n-p"

-1 letter: camping.

-2 letters: agamic, caiman, macing, magian, maniac, pacing.

-3 letters: acing, again, amain, amiga, amnia, amnic, anima, apian, aping, campi, gamic, gamin, magic, mania, manic, pagan, panga, panic.

-4 letters: agin, agma, amia, amin, anga, cain, camp, gain, gama, gamp, gimp, magi, main, mana, mica, mina, nipa, paca, pain, pang, pian, pica, pima, pina, ping.

-5 letters: aga, aim, ain, ama, ami, amp, ana, ani, cam, can, cap, cig, gam, gan, gap, gin, gip, imp, mac, mag, man, map, mig, nag, nam, nap, nim, nip, pac, pam, pan, pia, pic, pig, pin.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-m-n-p"
 

+1 letter: campaigns, champaign.

 

+2 letters: campaigned, campaigner, champaigns, pacemaking.

 

+3 letters: campaigners, campaigning, meatpacking, pacemakings, peacemaking.

 

+4 letters: accompanying, camphorating, emancipating, meatpackings, mispackaging, paramagnetic, peacemakings.

 

+5 letters: campanologies, campanologist, cinematograph, paleomagnetic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Campaign


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 6D 70 61 69 67 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    --    .--.    .-    ..    --.    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01101101 01110000 01100001 01101001 01100111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#109 &#112 &#97 &#105 &#103 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006D 0070 0061 0069 0067 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767798267757380

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