political campaign
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3.2
- noun
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campaña electoral
- Many volunteers joined the political campaign to help elect their candidate in the upcoming election.
- political campaign contributions
- finance political campaigns
- money for political campaigns
That's where you enter, you know, the legalities around political campaign fundraising and campaign finance.
- That's where you enter, you know, the legalities around political campaign fundraising and campaign finance.
- But the thing about children is they don't vote, they don't give money to political campaigns.
- And to quote his friend and former boss, Barack Obama, he ran the best political campaign in the history of the United States.
- We didn't have enough market power even as a political campaign to get people to give it to us in checks or to Zell payment to us.
- But the, the, the, the politics, the political campaign, of course, have their own rules and they produce and give birth to mythology.
- Think, for example, of control of political campaign spending, access to the ballot, affirmative action, access to abortion, same sex marriage.
- Whether we like it or not, our politicians and political campaigns now, we are so shallow as a population that we have to be entertained.
Examples
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Newsletters, voter registration drives, and political campaign strategies evolved from the bar subculture (D'Emilio, 1983).
Academic text (1997) -
That's where most of the money goes in any political campaign.
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You try to get your ideas across in a political campaign without money.
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Volunteer in an important political campaign.
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I'm just about to launch the biggest political campaign of my life.
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I think it will be interesting to see how future political campaigns approach social media.
Blog text (10) -
As a part of this political campaign, debates about cutting federal spending have been in the forefront.
Academic text (1996) -
And to quote his friend and former boss, Barack Obama, he ran the best political campaign in the history of the United States.
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Nonetheless, veterans and their allies waged major political campaigns to win benefits.
Academic text (2010) -
I'm in the last days of a political campaign that I've been waging for nearly a year.
Fiction book (1999)
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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4.4
Trying to be chosen for a job or elected office
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3.2
Organized work to help a person or group win an election
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3.7
An election where people compete to win a seat among national lawmakers
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4.0
An election to choose the leader of a state or territory
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4.4
An organized effort to get someone elected to the senate
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3.5
An organized effort to be elected governor of a state
A campaign where a candidate meets voters at the candidate's home instead of traveling
Being a person who runs for a job or elected office and the time they campaign
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organized effort by a candidate or party to win an election' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'political' (related to public policy or politics) with 'campaign' (a planned set of activities to achieve objectives). This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard noun + noun/adj + noun semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Political campaign comes from the old word campaign, which described soldiers moving across a field to try to win a battle. So a political campaign is a planned series of actions to try to win votes or 'to win an election'.