CAUCUS

caucus

(noun) a closed political meeting

caucus

(verb) meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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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