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Crackdown vs Campaign - What's the difference?

crackdown | campaign |

As nouns the difference between crackdown and campaign

is that crackdown is abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement while campaign is a series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.

As a verb campaign is

to take part in a campaign.

crackdown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.

    campaign

    English

    (wikipedia campaign)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
    • an election campaign'''; a military '''campaign
    The company is targeting children in their latest advertising campaign .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign .}}
  • (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
    • (Grath)
  • The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

    • Derived terms

    * advertising campaign * election campaign * military campaign * political campaign * rumor campaign * whisper campaign

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take part in a campaign.
    • She campaigned for better social security.
    * {{quote-news , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.}}