campaign
noun
[ kamˈpeɪn ]
• an organized course of action to achieve a goal.
• "the campaign for a full inquiry into the regime"
Similar:
crusade,
drive,
push,
effort,
struggle,
move,
movement,
operation,
manoeuvre,
course of action,
strategy,
set of tactics,
battle plan,
battle,
war,
• a series of military operations intended to achieve a particular objective, confined to a particular area, or involving a specified type of fighting.
• "a desert campaign"
Similar:
military operation(s),
manoeuvre (s),
offensive,
attack,
advance,
push,
thrust,
crusade,
war,
battle,
engagement,
action,
campaign
verb
• work in an organized and active way towards a particular goal, typically a political or social one.
• "people who campaigned against child labour"
Similar:
crusade,
fight,
battle,
work,
push,
press,
strive,
struggle,
agitate,
promote,
advocate,
champion,
speak for,
lobby for,
propagandize,
Origin:
early 17th century (denoting a tract of open country): from French campagne ‘open country’, via Italian from late Latin campania, from campus ‘level ground’ (see camp1). The change in sense to ‘a series of military operations’ 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.
