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Definition of Political campaign
1. Noun. A race between candidates for elective office. "He is raising money for a Senate run"
Generic synonyms: Race
Specialized synonyms: Campaign For Governor, Governor's Race, Senate Campaign, Senate Race
Derivative terms: Campaign, Run
2. Noun. The campaign of a candidate to be elected.
Terms within: Whistle-stop Tour
Generic synonyms: Campaign, Cause, Crusade, Drive, Effort, Movement
Specialized synonyms: Front-porch Campaign, Front-porch Campaigning, Hustings, Whispering Campaign, Stumping
Derivative terms: Electioneer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Political Campaign
Literary usage of Political campaign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
""I will ask you, Mr. Smith, if you know of any funds of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad expended in Tennessee for political campaign purposes during the ..."
2. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"THE MISSISSIPPI REVOLUTION A Revolution not a political campaign Election of ...
a revolution than a political campaign — it is the rebellion, ..."
3. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait ( Howe (1914)
"CHAPTER XIX THE political campaign OF 1860 THERE had never been any political
campaign in this country like that of 1860. In it there was arrayed the solid ..."
4. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait Howe (1914)
"CHAPTER XIX THE political campaign OF 186o THERE had never been any political
campaign in this country like that of 186o. In it there was arrayed the solid ..."
5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1899)
"... campaigns has the story of 1864 to occupy itself: it must take into account
the political campaign, the nomination and the election of a President. ..."