Synonyms for campaign
kæmˈpeɪncam·paign

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1. political campaign, campaign, runnoun

   a race between candidates for elective office

   "I managed his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a Senate run"

   Synonyms:
   hunting expedition, running game, electioneering, ladder, discharge, streak, safari, political campaign, rill, running play, crusade, drive, effort, candidature, ravel, movement, footrace, foot race, test, rivulet, run, tally, cause, trial, candidacy, military campaign, outpouring, runnel, streamlet, campaigning, running

2. campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effortnoun

   a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

   "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"

   Synonyms:
   political campaign, motility, driveway, thrust, exertion, case, reason, movement, apparent motion, private road, exploit, elbow grease, motion, attempt, causal agent, driving force, move, apparent movement, grounds, front, bowel movement, driving, cause, bm, causa, military campaign, travail, crusade, trend, feat, endeavour, drive, parkway, social movement, sweat, safari, ride, run, drift, try, hunting expedition, effort, causal agency, lawsuit, endeavor, suit

3. campaign, military campaignnoun

   several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)

   Synonyms:
   military campaign, run, political campaign, movement, cause, crusade, drive, effort, safari, hunting expedition

4. campaign, hunting expedition, safariverb

   an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)

   Synonyms:
   military campaign, run, political campaign, movement, cause, crusade, drive, effort, safari, hunting expedition

5. campaign, runverb

   run, stand, or compete for an office or a position

   "Who's running for treasurer this year?"

   Synonyms:
   fight, course, operate, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, melt down, range, run, press, function, lead, lam, flow, agitate, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, lean, crusade, play, die hard, race, pass, run for, black market, be given, persist, incline, ladder, draw, hightail it, push, prevail, tend, take the field, escape, guide, ply, melt

6. crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitateverb

   exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

   "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"

   Synonyms:
   fight, tug, excite, iron out, press out, crowd, raise up, shake up, shake, commove, run, press, vex, agitate, advertize, adjure, stir, budge, shift, urge on, weight-lift, promote, foment, turn on, rouse, compress, urge, struggle, oppose, entreat, contend, beseech, contract, iron, crusade, defend, fight back, squeeze, charge, compact, bear on, drive, exhort, labor, force, stir up, bid, charge up, push, fight down, take the field, weigh, conjure, constrict, disturb, advertise, weightlift, labour

7. campaign, take the fieldverb

   go on a campaign; go off to war

   Synonyms:
   run, take the field, press, push, fight, crusade, agitate

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1. operation

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "campaign":

   campaigning, campaigns, countryside, campagne, movement, campaña, campagna, field, drive, fight, season, movements, campania, sports, crusade, struggle, map, crackdown, activities, icbl

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1. Matthew Morgan:

   And when I presented this to (Trump deputy campaign manager) Justin Clark, Justin Clark didn’t think that was a number the campaign was willing to pay and I relied on then Justin to tell me if we could do such an engagement letter and then it never materialized.

2. Jessica Levinson:

   It might be great to say, ‘My favorite tennis star is voting for her.’ But those endorsement don’t supplant a well-run campaign and a message to voters that says, ‘This is what I want to do to make your lives better,’.

3. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   I got Bush's campaign people out in my hometown, and I have a library out there, OK? I got a library out there. So they've been living in this library trying to dig up all this stuff against me.

4. Hillary Clinton again:

   I really deplore the tone of his campaign, the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people, and his going after groups of people with hateful, incendiary rhetoric.

5. Marco Rubio:

   I think Chris was someone who somehow concluded that attacking me would help him in his campaign, obviously it didn't work.