POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does political campaign mean? 

• POLITICAL CAMPAIGN (noun)
  The noun POLITICAL CAMPAIGN has 2 senses:

1. a race between candidates for elective office

2. the campaign of a candidate to be elected

  Familiarity information: POLITICAL CAMPAIGN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLITICAL CAMPAIGN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A race between candidates for elective office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

campaign; political campaign; run

Context example:

he is raising money for a Senate run

Hypernyms ("political campaign" is a kind of...):

race (any competition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "political campaign"):

campaign for governor; governor's race (a race for election to the governorship)

senate campaign; senate race (a race for election to the senate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The campaign of a candidate to be elected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

campaigning; candidacy; candidature; electioneering; political campaign

Hypernyms ("political campaign" is a kind of...):

campaign; cause; crusade; drive; effort; movement (a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end)

Meronyms (parts of "political campaign"):

whistle-stop tour (a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "political campaign"):

front-porch campaign; front-porch campaigning (a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel)

hustings (the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making))

whispering campaign (the organized dissemination of derogatory rumors designed to discredit a candidate)

stumping (campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches))