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senate campaign

senate campaign

9 4.4
An organized effort to get someone elected to the senate
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛnɪt kæmˈpeɪn/
  • US
translation icon : campaña senatorial
  • Traynor is a childhood friend of Norris' and was the Chairman of his Senate campaign.
  • Senate campaign committee
  • U.S. Senate campaign
  • successful Senate campaign

Examples

  • Colorado saw the tea party madness up close in the 2010 Senate campaign.

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  • The most expensive Senate campaign for candidates, according to CRP, was in Massachusetts.

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  • My husband and I met when we worked intensely together as staff on a U.S. Senate campaign.

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  • We invited him to take part in our endorsement process for the 2012 Senate campaign, but he didn't take part.

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  • At the time, I was a senior staff person working on Senator Carol Mosley Braun's first Senate campaign.

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  • If Romney were to give up on Ohio, it would be devastating for Mandel's Senate campaign.

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  • In August 2000, Hillary Clinton held a huge Hollywood fundraiser for her Senate campaign.

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  • Craig James wants to hire Marvin Lewis as replay coordinator for his Senate campaign.

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  • Portman solidified many of those relationships during his 2010 Senate campaign, and he is leaning on those supporters to do now for Romney what they did for him in 2010.

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  • Thompson built his first senate campaign in 1994 on a typical theme: bringing change to Washington.

Synonyms

run
vssenate campaign
172 4.4

An attempt to win an elected office

refers specifically to winning a seat in the upper chamber rather than any office
senate race
vssenate campaign
  • US
56 3.7

An election where people compete to win a seat among national lawmakers

focuses on a coordinated effort by a candidate or group to win

Surface Forms

senate campaign singular
senate campaigns plural

Morphology

Senate + campaign

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'Senate' (a legislative body) and 'campaign' (a planned set of activities to achieve an objective), so a learner who knows both words can infer this refers to an organized effort related to the senate. This noun-noun combination and the concept of campaigning for office is cross-linguistically common, making it immediately comprehensible at B1.

Etymology

Senate campaign uses the word campaign, which long ago meant an army moving across a field, so you can picture people 'fighting' to take ground. That's why a senate campaign means the planned effort to 'win' a seat in the senate.