Caucus

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A meeting of the local members of a political party especially to select delegates to a convention or register preferences for candidates running for office.
  • noun. A closed meeting of party members within a legislative body to decide on questions of policy or leadership.
  • noun. A group within a legislative or decision-making body seeking to represent a specific interest or influence a particular area of policy.
  • noun. A committee within a political party charged with determining policy.
  • intransitive verb. To assemble in or hold a caucus.
  • intransitive verb. To assemble or canvass (members of a caucus).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To meet in caucus; come together and confer.
  • noun. In U. S. politics:
  • noun. A local meeting of the voters of a party to nominate candidates for local offices, or to elect delegates to a convention for the nomination of more important officers.
  • noun. A similar congressional, legislative, or other gathering of leading members of a party for conference as to party measures and policy.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any meeting of managers or of interested persons for the purpose of deciding upon a line of policy, an arrangement of business, etc., to be brought before a larger meeting, as a convention.
  • noun. In Eng. politics, a large local committee of voters for the management of all electioneering business of its party: called the Birmingham system, from its introduction at Birmingham about 1880.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
  • verb. To meet and participate in caucus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a closed political meeting
  • verb. meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
  • Word Usage
    "Winning in caucus is not democratic, its more like a boiling room brawl, muscling people."
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