different between campaign vs campaigner

English

Etymology

From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin camp?nia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campagna and champagne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæm?pe?n/, /k?m?pe?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

campaign (plural campaigns)

1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
2. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
3. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grath to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) An excursion into the countryside.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Hebrew: ??????? (kampéin)

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Verb

campaign (third-person singular simple present campaigns, present participle campaigning, simple past and past participle campaigned)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
2. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.
   • 2014, Doug Boyce, Drag Racing's Quarter-Mile Warriors: Then & Now, chapter 1, 31:

     Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas (Danekas blowers), who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again.

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Anagrams

• pangamic, panmagic

English

Etymology

campaign +? -er

Noun

campaigner (plural campaigners)

1. A person who has served in a military campaign.
2. (by extension) A military veteran.
3. A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal .
4. Someone with experience in a certain field.
5. An activist.

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