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What does crusade mean?

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Noun
  1. Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
  2. Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
  3. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
  4. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
Verb
  1. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
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