campaign for governor
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3.5
- noun
- US
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campaña para gobernador
- During her campaign for governor, she made several speeches focused on health care reforms.
- a successful campaign for governor
- an unsuccessful campaign for governor
- a primary campaign for governor
What's really wild is that this fourth attorney who just pled guilty actually hit me up a lot during my campaign for governor in California.
- What's really wild is that this fourth attorney who just pled guilty actually hit me up a lot during my campaign for governor in California.
Examples
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Romney's campaign reminds me quite a lot of billionaire Meg Whitman's 2010 campaign for governor of California.
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Democrats dominated much of Washington's election on Tuesday night, triumphing in several key races and claiming an early lead in the state's costly campaign for governor.
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As a matter of fact, I agreed with that statement when she made it at her first campaign for governor over eight years ago.
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Records also show that some of that money was used for her 2002 campaign for governor.
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I want you to know and the voters that despite this personal tragedy I resolve to carry on my campaign for governor.
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Clean energy also became a focus of Inslee's campaign for governor this year.
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King has announced his campaign for governor, and these unions are his largest contributors.
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Schultz is co-chair of Republican Meg Whitman's campaign for governor, which has placed him in somewhat of an awkward position.
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John Nichols: The Koch brothers were among the two or three largest contributors to Scott Walker's campaign for governor of Wisconsin.
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The issue of clientelism emerged during Ricardo Monreal's campaign for governor of Zacatecas, when the federation president was quoted in a Zacatecas newspaper as supporting Monreal.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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2.7
A planned set of public actions to win support
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4.4
An attempt to win an elected office
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3.2
Organized work to help a person or group win an election
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3.2
Organized actions by a candidate or party to get votes and win an election
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4.0
An election to choose the leader of a state or territory
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6.1
Trying to persuade people to vote for a candidate or party during an election
How Large
- US
4
3.5
58
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'campaign' (a planned set of activities) with the preposition 'for' (indicating purpose/target) and 'governor' (the elected state leader), so it straightforwardly denotes an effort to win election as governor. This compositional pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should understand it.
Etymology
Campaign for governor uses campaign like a long, planned effort; imagine a trip of meetings, speeches and rallies to win people's votes. So a campaign for governor means an organized effort 'to be elected' as governor.