military campaign
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri kæmˈpeɪn/
:
campaña militar
- The military campaign aimed to liberate the city from enemy control.
- a successful military campaign
- the U.S. military campaign
- the military campaign in Afghanistan
Examples
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The total failure of this military campaign left only Saudi Arabia in a dominant position.
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The country was subjected to a military campaign unprecedented in the history of modern warfare.
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To meet this challenge, however, the West needs more than a military campaign plan.
Academic text (2003) -
Some are already calling it the greatest victory in the history of military campaigns.
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The threatened attacks would obviously make clear that the initial military campaign by the U.S. failed to eliminate all radical Islamic groups.
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On 18 June 1997, the military campaign forced the Welfare Party-led government to resign.
Academic text (2000) -
Still, the casualty figures for Iraq are much lower than those for many U.S. military campaigns of the last century.
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Strategy and tactics are linked but functionally distinct aspects of any military campaign.
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Thus, 1847 was an important moment of transition from an active military campaign to a more peaceful process of colonization.
Academic text (2004) -
The end of the Cold War and improved U.S.-Soviet relations made possible the American-led military campaign in the Gulf.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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3.2
A planned action by a group to achieve a goal
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3.7
A planned action by armed forces to achieve a goal
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6.3
A trip by soldiers to fight and take control of a place in another country
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7.0
A carefully planned military action to reach long-term goals
Antonyms
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are semantically transparent: 'military' (relating to soldiers or war) modifies 'campaign' (a planned set of activities), so the combined meaning is a planned series of military operations. This compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Military campaign comes from an old word for 'field' and the part campaign first described an army moving across the countryside from camp to camp. Because these were many planned moves to reach one aim, military campaign now means a series of military operations to achieve a single goal.