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rumour campaign

rumour campaign is the alternative spelling of rumor campaign.

Meaning of rumor campaign

Noun

rumor campaign (plural rumor campaigns)

  1. (US, idiomatic) A method of persuasion in which damaging rumors or innuendo are deliberately spread concerning a person or other target, while the source of the rumors tries to avoid detection.

Forms of rumour campaign

pluralrumour campaigns

Questions about rumour campaign

What is rumour campaign the alternative spelling of?
Rumour campaign is the alternative spelling of rumor campaign.

Words near rumour campaign in the dictionary

  1. rumorous
  2. rumors
  3. rumortism
  4. rumortrage
  5. rumour
  6. rumour campaign
  7. rumour campaigns
  8. rumour had it
  9. rumour has it
  10. rumour mill
  11. rumour mills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rumour campaign (page history and authors); rumor 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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