campaign
verb
- compete for an office or a position
- work towards a goal
noun
- role-playing game term
- series of operations undertaken to achieve a defined goal
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kæmˈpeɪn/ / /kəmˈpeɪn/
noun
Etymology: From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
- A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
“an election campaign”
“a military campaign”
- A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
“His campaign for Hampshire was very good.”
- A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
- The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
- An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
- An excursion into the countryside.
verb
Etymology: From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
- To take part in a campaign.
“She campaigned for better social security.”
“But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.”
- Consistently ride in races for a racing season.
“After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy.”
“The "more curious" were the affluent planters who bred and campaigned race horses in quarter races, the only form of racing practiced in the Virginia colony during the first 125 years of its existence.”