campaignlet
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English
Etymology
Noun
campaignlet (plural campaignlets)
- A small-scale campaign.
- 1885 July 18, “Egypt.”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 60, number 1551, London: David Jones, , →OCLC, page 67:
- The campaign or campaignlet of 1885 cannot be considered a triumph for British strategy or British tactics.
- 1915 April 20, Rupert Brooke, edited by Geoffrey Keynes, The Letters of Rupert Brooke, London: Faber and Faber, published 1968, page 681:
- So we agreed—I. H. and I—that I'd go through this campaign or campaignlet or part of it, and, in the general and unforeseeable re-organization at the end of it, accept his offer, probably, then.
References
- “campaignlet, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
