Meaning & use
crusade
A vigorous, sustained campaign to achieve a particular goal, often for moral or social reform.
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She launched a crusade against plastic waste in her local community.
The journalist's crusade against corruption made him many enemies in government.
A note on using this word
Crusade also refers historically to the Christian military expeditions to the Holy Land during the Middle Ages; the modern sense is figurative and usually positive.
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Another way to use it
2. proper noun
Any of several medieval military expeditions by European Christians to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control.
Historians still debate the lasting effects of the Crusades on trade between Europe and the Middle East.
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