several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) | 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 |
an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands |
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | |
a race between candidates for elective office | |