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MILITARY CAMPAIGN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)
Synonyms:
campaign; military campaign
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("military campaign" is a kind of...):
military operation; operation (activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign))
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military campaign"):
expedition; hostile expedition; military expedition (a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country)
Instance hyponyms:
Dardanelles; Dardanelles campaign (the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks)
Okinawa; Okinawa campaign (a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans)
Petersburg; Petersburg Campaign (the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee)
Wilderness Campaign (American Civil War; a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses)
