campaigning
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- noun
- /kæmˈpeɪnɪŋ/
:
campaña electoral
- And now the nation's attention... is focused on California... with its last day of heated campaigning... before going to the polls tomorrow.
- political campaigning
- election campaigning
- negative campaigning
He would lead campaigns year after year after year.
- He would lead campaigns year after year after year.
- Jen O'Malley Dillon, his campaign chair right after the debate.
- She was Trump's campaigns director of African American outreach.
- I said in the mayoral campaign, we must be friends with everyone in the world.
- What I actually want is, is no campaigning at all.
- So campaigns can make campaign to campaign donations.
Examples
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After weeks of campaigning on the road, Tony Blair and his family finally strolled the few hundred yards to the polling station this election day morning.
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After six months of hard campaigning, there followed an interval of peace.
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And your father will be here all... week campaigning.
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I thought we were gonna show up early and do some campaigning.
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The September 1992 election included widespread campaigning by candidates representing a wide range of views.
Academic text (1995) -
At the grassroots level, there is almost no active, sustained campaigning on this issue.
Academic text (1992) -
For the most part, he has stuck to campaigning in the countryside, where events are easier to stage-manage.
Fiction book (2002) -
In particular, political campaigning typically reduces the president's approval rating because it brings his partisanship into sharp relief.
Academic text (2003) -
Folklorist Mariana Chilton's project "Witnesses to Hunger" exemplifies the effectiveness of campaigning on behalf of a disenfranchised population.
Academic text (2017) -
After weeks of campaigning across the country, the candidate finally felt ready for the election.
Synonyms
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3.2
Organized actions by a candidate or party to get votes and win an election
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6.1
Trying to persuade people to vote for a candidate or party during an election
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6.9
A series of energetic political speeches in different places to gain support
An activity where politicians travel and give speeches to win votes
Actively promoting something to get people to notice and support it
Compounds
- Literature
Giving speeches and meeting supporters at your home instead of traveling to many places
How Active
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word campaigning comes from campaign, which first meant a series of army moves 'in the field' and comes from the old word camp meaning 'field'. So political campaigning is like planned, organized moves to win support, similar to a military campaign.