MILITARY CAMPAIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military campaign mean? 

• MILITARY CAMPAIGN (noun)
  The noun MILITARY CAMPAIGN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MILITARY CAMPAIGN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY CAMPAIGN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

campaign; military campaign

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)