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CAUCUS
caucus
(noun) a closed political meeting
caucus
(verb) meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
caucus (plural caucuses or caucusses) (US, Canada, Israel, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, archaic in United Kingdom, not used in the European Union)
A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy.
A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
Synonym: parliamentary group
A political interest group by members of a legislative body.
Verb
caucus (third-person singular simple present caucusses or caucuses, present participle caucussing or caucusing, simple past and past participle caucussed or caucused)
(intransitive or transitive + with) To meet and participate in caucus.
(transitive) To bring into or treat in caucus.
Source: Wiktionary
Cau"cus, n. Etym: [Etymology uncertain. Mr. J. H. Trumbull finds the origin of caucus in the N. A. Indian word cawcawwassough or caú cau- as'u one who urges or pushes on, a promoter. See citation for an early use of the word caucus.]
Definition: A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. John Adams's Diary [Feb. , 1763].
Cau"cus, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caucused; p. pr. & vb. n. Caucusing.]
Definition: To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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