Definition of crusade in English:

crusade

noun kruːˈseɪdkruˈseɪd

1Each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
十字军（中世纪的军事远征，指11、12和13世纪欧洲人为从穆斯林手中收复圣地而进行的一系列战争之一）
the fanaticism engendered by the Crusades
in 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople
Example sentencesExamples
- The Crusade had been launched by Pope Urban II in 1095.
- Saladin and Richard the Lionheart are two names that tend to dominate the Crusades.
- The Crusades weigh heavily on the Arab world as well.
- The first Crusade took three years to reach the Holy Land.
- After the Mamluks took Jerusalem in 1244 AD, Louis announced his Crusade.
- Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common.
- The Sixth Crusade was led by Emperor Frederick II.
- Medieval England was to gain a great deal from the Crusades.
1. 1.1 A war instigated for alleged religious ends.
  （基督教徒为所说的宗教目的发动的）圣战，宗教战争
  the Albigensian crusades
  Example sentencesExamples
  They're sort of fighting a battle for God, but a battle of prayer and ethics, and sort of moral crusades.
  Before that, our ancestors backed empires and launched crusades.
  We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades.
  Our holy wars, crusades, and pogroms have decimated people in the millions in the name of our religion.
  Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day.
  Peak oil, global warming, pandemics and religious crusades are about to converge in a most unfortunate way.
  The Armada was not only a religious crusade - though the people of Spain interpreted it as being so.
  However, there has been little to compare to the crusades and religious wars in medieval and early-modern Europe.
  The cross has been carried at the head of crusades and pogroms, even as it was offered to the weak as a model of how they ought to accept their suffering.
  Therefore, the Civil War must be a religious crusade to regain the Almighty's favour.
  Synonyms
  holy war
  military campaign
2A vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change.
a crusade against crime
反犯罪运动。
Example sentencesExamples
- We all need to support the crusade against corruption.
- Nonetheless, I'm somewhat sympathetic to their crusade against horrible animal living conditions.
- His crusade against the government apathy towards ex-soldiers and their families is continuing even at the age of 81.
- Town leaders are calling for a crusade against television programmes they claim are eroding moral values.
- A civil servant has vowed to carry on her crusade against crime despite becoming the victim of a hate campaign.
- After 1945, World War II was conceptualized here as a crusade against absolutism and intolerance.
- In addition, more elaborate evangelism programs, such as the multi-day, outdoor crusades, are rarely held because of prompting from leaders in the church administration.
- The crusade against child obesity is likely to produce, not healthy outcomes, but miserable children and anxious parents and epidemics of dieting and eating disorders.
- Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people made ‘decisions’ for Christ at various evangelistic crusades and festivals.
- While urging the authorities to find more resources to fix up our schools, our political representatives ought to be leading the crusade against vandalism.
- Schools across the country have joined the crusade against violence.
- His crusade against greyness is in part a response to his experience of Czechoslovakia which, as a dual passport holder, he left for London in 1968.
- The grandfather of a teenage boy who died after inhaling an aerosol is now committed to a life-saving crusade against solvent abuse.
- Our specialized insights and practices are crucial in the national crusade for health.
- In this regard, he is not an armchair liberal, his crusade against hatred, neo-Nazism etc seems to be an integral part of his public identity.
- His crusade against redundancy and overspending in government seemed fuelled by an overriding concern for the common good.
Synonyms
campaign, drive, push, move, movement, effort, struggle
battle, war, offensive

verb kruːˈseɪdkruˈseɪd

[no object]often as adjective crusading

Lead or take part in a vigorous campaign for social, political, or religious change.
领导（或参加）运动
a crusading stance on poverty
向贫困开战的态度。
Example sentencesExamples
- And, it seems, that for all his crusading on behalf of workers, he isn't the best boss to work for.
- Mostly, crusading politicians get frustrated and give up or learn the ropes and work within the existing system.
- He's devoted years of thought and action to foreign policy, and in decades past has courageously crusaded against national security corruption, including the CIA's connection to contra supporters involved with drug dealing.
- True, they crusaded to take women out of politics, but they did so in order to open up other areas of public life to women.
- Activist movements led by adult adoptees have crusaded against the ‘secrets and lies’ of confidential adoption.
- The newspaper crusaded against emancipation in the months leading up to the draft riots.
- He crusaded for free food stamps to combat hunger and malnutrition in children.
- He has crusaded ceaselessly against welfare recipients, eventually gaining national renown by time-limiting their eligibility for support.
- She said that, as somebody who has been crusading to get insurance premiums down for drivers under 25, she was appalled at such comments.
- But it still strikes me as a bizarre issue to be crusading on behalf of.
- And he is crusading to force brokers to reveal how they are paid to sell certain funds.
- He changed the position of the Catholic church on the death penalty, and he crusaded against the death penalty.
- The result was that Europe quickly lost its taste for crusading.
- Why is it left to this small public company to be crusading in this area against the establishment?
- Before the election, the local media successfully crusaded for change in government policy that would provide free antiretroviral treatment to the poor.
- He was a pioneer conservationist, crusading to save Georgian London from the developers and responsible for saving Carlton House Terrace.
- You're crusading against a lot of the violence that some of the other hip-hop artists celebrate.
- He was ridiculed and reviled, but this did not deter him for one second from crusading on behalf of society's outcasts.
- Such clashes put him in a fighting mood about the needs of the disabled, and he has been crusading for various causes ever since.
- Were my grandparents secretly crusading to end world hunger?
Synonyms
campaign, fight, do battle, battle, take up arms, take up the cudgels, work, push, press, strive, struggle, agitate, lobby
champion, promote

Origin

Late 16th century (originally as croisade): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado) of earlier croisée, literally 'the state of being marked with the cross', based on Latin crux, cruc- 'cross'; in the 17th century the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th century.

cross from Old English:
The word cross was initially used in English to refer to a monument in the form of a cross. The source is Old Norse kross, which in turn goes back to crux, a Latin word that gave us crucial, crucible (Late Middle English) originally a night light or the sort that might be hung in front of a crucifix (Middle English), and excruciating.
People cross their fingers to ward off bad luck. What they are doing is making a miniature ‘sign of the cross’, whether they know it or not. To cross someone's palm with silver is to pay them for a favour or service. It probably comes from the idea of tracing the shape of a cross on a fortune-teller's palm with a silver coin before you are told what the future has in store.
In 49 bc Julius Caesar, having defeated the Gauls, brought his army south to fight a civil war against Pompey and the Roman Senate. When he crossed the Rubicon, a small river marking the boundary between Italy and the Roman province of Gaul, he was committed to war, having broken the law forbidding him to take his troops out of his province. Cross meaning ‘annoyed’ dates back to the 17th century. It derives from the nautical idea of a wind blowing across the bow of your ship rather than from behind, which produced the senses ‘contrary, opposing’, and ‘adverse, opposed’, and then ‘annoyed, bad-tempered’. Crosspatch (early 18th century) is based on the obsolete word patch meaning ‘fool, clown’, perhaps from Italian pazzo ‘madman’.

Rhymes

abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade

Definition of crusade in US English:

crusade

(also Crusade)

nounkro͞oˈsādkruˈseɪd

1A medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
十字军（中世纪的军事远征，指11、12和13世纪欧洲人为从穆斯林手中收复圣地而进行的一系列战争之一）
Example sentencesExamples
- Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common.
- The first Crusade took three years to reach the Holy Land.
- The Crusade had been launched by Pope Urban II in 1095.
- The Crusades weigh heavily on the Arab world as well.
- Saladin and Richard the Lionheart are two names that tend to dominate the Crusades.
- The Sixth Crusade was led by Emperor Frederick II.
- Medieval England was to gain a great deal from the Crusades.
- After the Mamluks took Jerusalem in 1244 AD, Louis announced his Crusade.
1. 1.1 A war instigated by the Church for alleged religious ends.
  （基督教徒为所说的宗教目的发动的）圣战，宗教战争
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cross has been carried at the head of crusades and pogroms, even as it was offered to the weak as a model of how they ought to accept their suffering.
  Before that, our ancestors backed empires and launched crusades.
  We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades.
  The Armada was not only a religious crusade - though the people of Spain interpreted it as being so.
  Our holy wars, crusades, and pogroms have decimated people in the millions in the name of our religion.
  They're sort of fighting a battle for God, but a battle of prayer and ethics, and sort of moral crusades.
  Therefore, the Civil War must be a religious crusade to regain the Almighty's favour.
  However, there has been little to compare to the crusades and religious wars in medieval and early-modern Europe.
  Peak oil, global warming, pandemics and religious crusades are about to converge in a most unfortunate way.
  Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day.
  Synonyms
  holy war
2. 1.2 An organized campaign concerning a political, social, or religious issue, typically motivated by a fervent desire for change.
  （常指由强烈的改革愿望促成的有关政治、社会或宗教争议的有组织的）运动
  a crusade against crime
  反犯罪运动。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The grandfather of a teenage boy who died after inhaling an aerosol is now committed to a life-saving crusade against solvent abuse.
  A civil servant has vowed to carry on her crusade against crime despite becoming the victim of a hate campaign.
  His crusade against greyness is in part a response to his experience of Czechoslovakia which, as a dual passport holder, he left for London in 1968.
  While urging the authorities to find more resources to fix up our schools, our political representatives ought to be leading the crusade against vandalism.
  After 1945, World War II was conceptualized here as a crusade against absolutism and intolerance.
  Schools across the country have joined the crusade against violence.
  In addition, more elaborate evangelism programs, such as the multi-day, outdoor crusades, are rarely held because of prompting from leaders in the church administration.
  Nonetheless, I'm somewhat sympathetic to their crusade against horrible animal living conditions.
  His crusade against the government apathy towards ex-soldiers and their families is continuing even at the age of 81.
  The crusade against child obesity is likely to produce, not healthy outcomes, but miserable children and anxious parents and epidemics of dieting and eating disorders.
  Town leaders are calling for a crusade against television programmes they claim are eroding moral values.
  Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people made ‘decisions’ for Christ at various evangelistic crusades and festivals.
  In this regard, he is not an armchair liberal, his crusade against hatred, neo-Nazism etc seems to be an integral part of his public identity.
  Our specialized insights and practices are crucial in the national crusade for health.
  We all need to support the crusade against corruption.
  His crusade against redundancy and overspending in government seemed fuelled by an overriding concern for the common good.
  Synonyms
  campaign, drive, push, move, movement, effort, struggle

verbkro͞oˈsādkruˈseɪd

[no object]

Lead or take part in an energetic and organized campaign concerning a social, political, or religious issue.
领导（或参加）运动
he crusaded against gambling in the 1950s
Example sentencesExamples
- But it still strikes me as a bizarre issue to be crusading on behalf of.
- He changed the position of the Catholic church on the death penalty, and he crusaded against the death penalty.
- And, it seems, that for all his crusading on behalf of workers, he isn't the best boss to work for.
- The newspaper crusaded against emancipation in the months leading up to the draft riots.
- Such clashes put him in a fighting mood about the needs of the disabled, and he has been crusading for various causes ever since.
- He crusaded for free food stamps to combat hunger and malnutrition in children.
- He's devoted years of thought and action to foreign policy, and in decades past has courageously crusaded against national security corruption, including the CIA's connection to contra supporters involved with drug dealing.
- Were my grandparents secretly crusading to end world hunger?
- Why is it left to this small public company to be crusading in this area against the establishment?
- She said that, as somebody who has been crusading to get insurance premiums down for drivers under 25, she was appalled at such comments.
- He was ridiculed and reviled, but this did not deter him for one second from crusading on behalf of society's outcasts.
- True, they crusaded to take women out of politics, but they did so in order to open up other areas of public life to women.
- You're crusading against a lot of the violence that some of the other hip-hop artists celebrate.
- And he is crusading to force brokers to reveal how they are paid to sell certain funds.
- Activist movements led by adult adoptees have crusaded against the ‘secrets and lies’ of confidential adoption.
- The result was that Europe quickly lost its taste for crusading.
- He was a pioneer conservationist, crusading to save Georgian London from the developers and responsible for saving Carlton House Terrace.
- He has crusaded ceaselessly against welfare recipients, eventually gaining national renown by time-limiting their eligibility for support.
- Mostly, crusading politicians get frustrated and give up or learn the ropes and work within the existing system.
- Before the election, the local media successfully crusaded for change in government policy that would provide free antiretroviral treatment to the poor.
Synonyms
campaign, fight, do battle, battle, take up arms, take up the cudgels, work, push, press, strive, struggle, agitate, lobby

Origin

Late 16th century (originally as croisade): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado) of earlier croisée, literally ‘the state of being marked with the cross’, based on Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’; in the 17th century the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th century.

词汇	crusade
释义	Definition of crusade in English: crusade noun kruːˈseɪdkruˈseɪd 1Each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. 十字军（中世纪的军事远征，指11、12和13世纪欧洲人为从穆斯林手中收复圣地而进行的一系列战争之一） the fanaticism engendered by the Crusades in 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople Example sentencesExamples The Crusade had been launched by Pope Urban II in 1095. Saladin and Richard the Lionheart are two names that tend to dominate the Crusades. The Crusades weigh heavily on the Arab world as well. The first Crusade took three years to reach the Holy Land. After the Mamluks took Jerusalem in 1244 AD, Louis announced his Crusade. Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common. The Sixth Crusade was led by Emperor Frederick II. Medieval England was to gain a great deal from the Crusades. 1.1 A war instigated for alleged religious ends. （基督教徒为所说的宗教目的发动的）圣战，宗教战争 the Albigensian crusades Example sentencesExamples They're sort of fighting a battle for God, but a battle of prayer and ethics, and sort of moral crusades. Before that, our ancestors backed empires and launched crusades. We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades. Our holy wars, crusades, and pogroms have decimated people in the millions in the name of our religion. Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day. Peak oil, global warming, pandemics and religious crusades are about to converge in a most unfortunate way. The Armada was not only a religious crusade - though the people of Spain interpreted it as being so. However, there has been little to compare to the crusades and religious wars in medieval and early-modern Europe. The cross has been carried at the head of crusades and pogroms, even as it was offered to the weak as a model of how they ought to accept their suffering. Therefore, the Civil War must be a religious crusade to regain the Almighty's favour. Synonyms holy war military campaign 2A vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change. a crusade against crime 反犯罪运动。 Example sentencesExamples We all need to support the crusade against corruption. Nonetheless, I'm somewhat sympathetic to their crusade against horrible animal living conditions. His crusade against the government apathy towards ex-soldiers and their families is continuing even at the age of 81. Town leaders are calling for a crusade against television programmes they claim are eroding moral values. A civil servant has vowed to carry on her crusade against crime despite becoming the victim of a hate campaign. After 1945, World War II was conceptualized here as a crusade against absolutism and intolerance. In addition, more elaborate evangelism programs, such as the multi-day, outdoor crusades, are rarely held because of prompting from leaders in the church administration. The crusade against child obesity is likely to produce, not healthy outcomes, but miserable children and anxious parents and epidemics of dieting and eating disorders. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people made ‘decisions’ for Christ at various evangelistic crusades and festivals. While urging the authorities to find more resources to fix up our schools, our political representatives ought to be leading the crusade against vandalism. Schools across the country have joined the crusade against violence. His crusade against greyness is in part a response to his experience of Czechoslovakia which, as a dual passport holder, he left for London in 1968. The grandfather of a teenage boy who died after inhaling an aerosol is now committed to a life-saving crusade against solvent abuse. Our specialized insights and practices are crucial in the national crusade for health. In this regard, he is not an armchair liberal, his crusade against hatred, neo-Nazism etc seems to be an integral part of his public identity. His crusade against redundancy and overspending in government seemed fuelled by an overriding concern for the common good. Synonyms campaign, drive, push, move, movement, effort, struggle battle, war, offensive verb kruːˈseɪdkruˈseɪd [no object]often as adjective crusading Lead or take part in a vigorous campaign for social, political, or religious change. 领导（或参加）运动 a crusading stance on poverty 向贫困开战的态度。 Example sentencesExamples And, it seems, that for all his crusading on behalf of workers, he isn't the best boss to work for. Mostly, crusading politicians get frustrated and give up or learn the ropes and work within the existing system. He's devoted years of thought and action to foreign policy, and in decades past has courageously crusaded against national security corruption, including the CIA's connection to contra supporters involved with drug dealing. True, they crusaded to take women out of politics, but they did so in order to open up other areas of public life to women. Activist movements led by adult adoptees have crusaded against the ‘secrets and lies’ of confidential adoption. The newspaper crusaded against emancipation in the months leading up to the draft riots. He crusaded for free food stamps to combat hunger and malnutrition in children. He has crusaded ceaselessly against welfare recipients, eventually gaining national renown by time-limiting their eligibility for support. She said that, as somebody who has been crusading to get insurance premiums down for drivers under 25, she was appalled at such comments. But it still strikes me as a bizarre issue to be crusading on behalf of. And he is crusading to force brokers to reveal how they are paid to sell certain funds. He changed the position of the Catholic church on the death penalty, and he crusaded against the death penalty. The result was that Europe quickly lost its taste for crusading. Why is it left to this small public company to be crusading in this area against the establishment? Before the election, the local media successfully crusaded for change in government policy that would provide free antiretroviral treatment to the poor. He was a pioneer conservationist, crusading to save Georgian London from the developers and responsible for saving Carlton House Terrace. You're crusading against a lot of the violence that some of the other hip-hop artists celebrate. He was ridiculed and reviled, but this did not deter him for one second from crusading on behalf of society's outcasts. Such clashes put him in a fighting mood about the needs of the disabled, and he has been crusading for various causes ever since. Were my grandparents secretly crusading to end world hunger? Synonyms campaign, fight, do battle, battle, take up arms, take up the cudgels, work, push, press, strive, struggle, agitate, lobby champion, promote Origin Late 16th century (originally as croisade): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado) of earlier croisée, literally 'the state of being marked with the cross', based on Latin crux, cruc- 'cross'; in the 17th century the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th century. cross from Old English: The word cross was initially used in English to refer to a monument in the form of a cross. The source is Old Norse kross, which in turn goes back to crux, a Latin word that gave us crucial, crucible (Late Middle English) originally a night light or the sort that might be hung in front of a crucifix (Middle English), and excruciating. People cross their fingers to ward off bad luck. What they are doing is making a miniature ‘sign of the cross’, whether they know it or not. To cross someone's palm with silver is to pay them for a favour or service. It probably comes from the idea of tracing the shape of a cross on a fortune-teller's palm with a silver coin before you are told what the future has in store. In 49 bc Julius Caesar, having defeated the Gauls, brought his army south to fight a civil war against Pompey and the Roman Senate. When he crossed the Rubicon, a small river marking the boundary between Italy and the Roman province of Gaul, he was committed to war, having broken the law forbidding him to take his troops out of his province. Cross meaning ‘annoyed’ dates back to the 17th century. It derives from the nautical idea of a wind blowing across the bow of your ship rather than from behind, which produced the senses ‘contrary, opposing’, and ‘adverse, opposed’, and then ‘annoyed, bad-tempered’. Crosspatch (early 18th century) is based on the obsolete word patch meaning ‘fool, clown’, perhaps from Italian pazzo ‘madman’. Rhymes abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade Definition of crusade in US English: crusade (also Crusade) nounkro͞oˈsādkruˈseɪd 1A medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. 十字军（中世纪的军事远征，指11、12和13世纪欧洲人为从穆斯林手中收复圣地而进行的一系列战争之一） Example sentencesExamples Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common. The first Crusade took three years to reach the Holy Land. The Crusade had been launched by Pope Urban II in 1095. The Crusades weigh heavily on the Arab world as well. Saladin and Richard the Lionheart are two names that tend to dominate the Crusades. The Sixth Crusade was led by Emperor Frederick II. Medieval England was to gain a great deal from the Crusades. After the Mamluks took Jerusalem in 1244 AD, Louis announced his Crusade. 1.1 A war instigated by the Church for alleged religious ends. （基督教徒为所说的宗教目的发动的）圣战，宗教战争 Example sentencesExamples The cross has been carried at the head of crusades and pogroms, even as it was offered to the weak as a model of how they ought to accept their suffering. Before that, our ancestors backed empires and launched crusades. We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades. The Armada was not only a religious crusade - though the people of Spain interpreted it as being so. Our holy wars, crusades, and pogroms have decimated people in the millions in the name of our religion. They're sort of fighting a battle for God, but a battle of prayer and ethics, and sort of moral crusades. Therefore, the Civil War must be a religious crusade to regain the Almighty's favour. However, there has been little to compare to the crusades and religious wars in medieval and early-modern Europe. Peak oil, global warming, pandemics and religious crusades are about to converge in a most unfortunate way. Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day. Synonyms holy war 1.2 An organized campaign concerning a political, social, or religious issue, typically motivated by a fervent desire for change. （常指由强烈的改革愿望促成的有关政治、社会或宗教争议的有组织的）运动 a crusade against crime 反犯罪运动。 Example sentencesExamples The grandfather of a teenage boy who died after inhaling an aerosol is now committed to a life-saving crusade against solvent abuse. A civil servant has vowed to carry on her crusade against crime despite becoming the victim of a hate campaign. His crusade against greyness is in part a response to his experience of Czechoslovakia which, as a dual passport holder, he left for London in 1968. While urging the authorities to find more resources to fix up our schools, our political representatives ought to be leading the crusade against vandalism. After 1945, World War II was conceptualized here as a crusade against absolutism and intolerance. Schools across the country have joined the crusade against violence. In addition, more elaborate evangelism programs, such as the multi-day, outdoor crusades, are rarely held because of prompting from leaders in the church administration. Nonetheless, I'm somewhat sympathetic to their crusade against horrible animal living conditions. His crusade against the government apathy towards ex-soldiers and their families is continuing even at the age of 81. The crusade against child obesity is likely to produce, not healthy outcomes, but miserable children and anxious parents and epidemics of dieting and eating disorders. Town leaders are calling for a crusade against television programmes they claim are eroding moral values. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people made ‘decisions’ for Christ at various evangelistic crusades and festivals. In this regard, he is not an armchair liberal, his crusade against hatred, neo-Nazism etc seems to be an integral part of his public identity. Our specialized insights and practices are crucial in the national crusade for health. We all need to support the crusade against corruption. His crusade against redundancy and overspending in government seemed fuelled by an overriding concern for the common good. Synonyms campaign, drive, push, move, movement, effort, struggle verbkro͞oˈsādkruˈseɪd [no object] Lead or take part in an energetic and organized campaign concerning a social, political, or religious issue. 领导（或参加）运动 he crusaded against gambling in the 1950s Example sentencesExamples But it still strikes me as a bizarre issue to be crusading on behalf of. He changed the position of the Catholic church on the death penalty, and he crusaded against the death penalty. And, it seems, that for all his crusading on behalf of workers, he isn't the best boss to work for. The newspaper crusaded against emancipation in the months leading up to the draft riots. Such clashes put him in a fighting mood about the needs of the disabled, and he has been crusading for various causes ever since. He crusaded for free food stamps to combat hunger and malnutrition in children. He's devoted years of thought and action to foreign policy, and in decades past has courageously crusaded against national security corruption, including the CIA's connection to contra supporters involved with drug dealing. Were my grandparents secretly crusading to end world hunger? Why is it left to this small public company to be crusading in this area against the establishment? She said that, as somebody who has been crusading to get insurance premiums down for drivers under 25, she was appalled at such comments. He was ridiculed and reviled, but this did not deter him for one second from crusading on behalf of society's outcasts. True, they crusaded to take women out of politics, but they did so in order to open up other areas of public life to women. You're crusading against a lot of the violence that some of the other hip-hop artists celebrate. And he is crusading to force brokers to reveal how they are paid to sell certain funds. Activist movements led by adult adoptees have crusaded against the ‘secrets and lies’ of confidential adoption. The result was that Europe quickly lost its taste for crusading. He was a pioneer conservationist, crusading to save Georgian London from the developers and responsible for saving Carlton House Terrace. He has crusaded ceaselessly against welfare recipients, eventually gaining national renown by time-limiting their eligibility for support. Mostly, crusading politicians get frustrated and give up or learn the ropes and work within the existing system. Before the election, the local media successfully crusaded for change in government policy that would provide free antiretroviral treatment to the poor. Synonyms campaign, fight, do battle, battle, take up arms, take up the cudgels, work, push, press, strive, struggle, agitate, lobby Origin Late 16th century (originally as croisade): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado) of earlier croisée, literally ‘the state of being marked with the cross’, based on Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’; in the 17th century the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th century.
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