campaign

verb

campaigned; campaigning; campaigns

intransitive verb

: to go on, engage in, or conduct a campaign

campaigned for the presidency

transitive verb

: to enter (something, such as a horse or boat) in competition

… was at that time campaigning a big steeplechase stable …

—A. H. Higginson

campaigner noun

Examples of campaign in a Sentence

She campaigned to save the town library.

He campaigned hard to get more funding.

a time when women were campaigning for the right to vote

I campaigned for her when she ran for governor.

Recent Examples on the Web

Becerra was back in Sacramento campaigning for two congressional candidates and was invited to a nonpolitical reception. —George Skelton, Mercury News, 10 June 2026

There are seven Republicans who are actively campaigning and five Democrats on the ballot for their parties' nominations. —Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 9 June 2026

Delrahim, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times earlier this month, also accused people of campaigning against the Paramount-WBD merger and blamed antisemitism without further explanation. —Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026

Pashinyan campaigned on drawing closer ties to the West, in part through brokering a lasting peace with longtime enemies Azerbaijan and Turkey. —Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

derivative of campaign entry 1

First Known Use

1692, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Phrases Containing campaign

• campaign button
• campaign for
• campaign trail
• counter-campaign
• whispering campaign

Rhymes for campaign

• abstain
• airplane
• alkane
• arcane
• arraign
• attain
• backplane
• betaine
• biplane
• blockchain
• butane
• cetane

Kids Definition

campaign

noun

cam·​paign

kam-ˈpān

1

: a series of military operations in a particular area or for a particular purpose as part of a war

2

: a connected series of activities designed to bring about a particular result

an election campaign

campaign verb

campaigner noun