campaign
verb/kæmˈpeɪn/
/kæmˈpeɪn/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they campaign | /kæmˈpeɪn/ /kæmˈpeɪn/ |
| he / she / it campaigns | /kæmˈpeɪnz/ /kæmˈpeɪnz/ |
| past simple campaigned | /kæmˈpeɪnd/ /kæmˈpeɪnd/ |
| past participle campaigned | /kæmˈpeɪnd/ /kæmˈpeɪnd/ |
| -ing form campaigning | /kæmˈpeɪnɪŋ/ /kæmˈpeɪnɪŋ/ |
- to take part in or lead a campaign, for example to achieve social or political change, or in order to win an election
- The party campaigned vigorously in the north of the country.
- campaign for somebody/something She has campaigned tirelessly for their release.
- campaign against somebody/something We have actively campaigned against whaling for the last 15 years.
- She campaigned on a pro-business platform (= with policies to help business).
- We campaign on behalf of consumers.
- campaign to do something They are campaigning to save the area from building development.
Extra Examples- We will campaign hard for an end to the ivory trade.
- Local communities have successfully campaigned against the dumping of toxic waste.
- The group campaigns on a range of environmental issues.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- actively
- aggressively
- hard
- …
- against
- for
- on
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a large area of open country): from French campagne ‘open country’, via Italian from late Latin campania, from campus ‘level ground’, specifically applied to the Campus Martius in Rome, used for games, athletic practice, and military drill. The change in sense arose from an army's practice of “taking the field” (i.e. moving from a fortress or town to open country) at the onset of summer.Definitions on the go
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