campaign

«campaign» in Mova's school dictionary: a planned series of actions to get something done, such… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a campaign, campaigns); verb (campaign, campaigns, campaigned, campaigning)

meaning for a pupil

1) A campaign is a planned series of actions to get something done, such as winning an election or changing a rule. tree →

2) To campaign is to work hard to get people to support something or to make a change. tree →

3) A military campaign is a series of battles in one war or area. tree →

4) An advertising campaign is a set of adverts to sell something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school, pupils run campaigns to save energy, stop litter or be elected to the school council. In history lessons armies fight campaigns. In citizenship lessons people campaign for rights and laws. Phrases: run a campaign, campaign for/against, election campaign, advertising campaign.

examples

• Our class started a campaign to stop litter. tree →
• She campaigned to become class president. tree →
• The election campaign lasted six weeks. tree →
• People campaigned for cleaner rivers. tree →
• The general planned a winter campaign. tree →
• The new advertising campaign is on every bus. tree →
• They campaigned against closing the library. tree →
• About this time the King of a very powerful kingdom was carrying on a war; the youth therefore took service under him and went on the campaign. tree →

note

Silent «g»: pronounced «cam-PAIN». The «g» is silent in «campaigner» too. Do not spell «campain».

In the corpora

• Supply, weather and winter often stopped real campaigns altogether.
• Suffragists campaigned for votes for women with petitions, meetings and peaceful marches, and Millicent Fawcett led them in Britain.
• In the USA women campaigned for decades, led by Susan B.
• Disabled people campaigned for ramps and access, and rulers like the Mughal emperor Akbar showed long ago that respecting other faiths helps peace.
• A campaign promise is something a candidate says they will do; promising what you cannot make happen makes people cross later.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «campaign» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.