crusade
cru|sade /kruːs'eɪd/ (crusades crusading crusaded)
1 [N-COUNT] oft N against/for n, N to-inf
A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
Footballers launched an unprecedented crusade against racism on the terraces...
= campaign
2 [VERB] V against/for n, V-ing
If you crusade for a particular cause, you make a long and determined effort to achieve something for it.
...a newspaper that has crusaded against the country's cocaine traffickers.
...an adopted boy whose cause is taken up by a crusading lawyer.
= campaign
3 [N-PROPER-PLURAL] the N
The Crusades were the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.
1 [N-COUNT] oft N against/for n, N to-inf
A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
Footballers launched an unprecedented crusade against racism on the terraces...
= campaign
2 [VERB] V against/for n, V-ing
If you crusade for a particular cause, you make a long and determined effort to achieve something for it.
...a newspaper that has crusaded against the country's cocaine traffickers.
...an adopted boy whose cause is taken up by a crusading lawyer.
= campaign
3 [N-PROPER-PLURAL] the N
The Crusades were the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.