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campaigning

campaigning is the gerund of campaign.

campaigning is the present participle and gerund of campaign.

Meaning of campaign

Noun

campaign (plural campaigns)

  1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
    • an election campaign
  2. A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
    • His campaign for Hampshire was very good.
  3. (roleplaying games) A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
  4. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
  5. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
  6. (obsolete) An excursion into the countryside.

See all 8 meanings of campaign

Forms of campaigning

pluralcampaignings

Origin of campaigning

From campaign + -ing.

Words formed from campaigning

Questions about campaigning

What is campaigning the gerund of?
Campaigning is the gerund of campaign.

Words near campaigning in the dictionary

  1. campaign wig
  2. campaign wigs
  3. campaigned
  4. campaigner
  5. campaigners
  6. campaigning
  7. campaignings
  8. campaignist
  9. campaignists
  10. campaignlet
  11. campaignlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: campaigning (page history and authors); campaign (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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