campaignlet

English

Etymology

From campaign +‎ -let.

Noun

campaignlet (plural campaignlets)

1. 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, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.