CRUSADE


Meaning of CRUSADE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kru:seɪd ]

( crusades, crusading, crusaded)

1.

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

N-COUNT : oft N against/for n , N to-inf

2.

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

VERB : V against/for n , V-ing

3.

The Crusades were the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.

N-PROPER-PLURAL : the N

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