Caucus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • n. A closed meeting of party members within a legislative body to decide on questions of policy or leadership.
  • n. A group within a legislative or decision-making body seeking to represent a specific interest or influence a particular area of policy: a minority caucus.
  • n. Chiefly British A committee within a political party charged with determining policy.
  • verb-intransitive. To assemble in or hold a caucus.
  • v. To assemble or canvass (members of a caucus).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
  • v. To meet and participate in caucus.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In U. S. politics:
  • n. 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.
  • n. A similar congressional, legislative, or other gathering of leading members of a party for conference as to party measures and policy.
  • n.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • To meet in caucus; come together and confer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a closed political meeting
  • v. meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
  • Verb Form
    caucused    caucuses    caucusing    caucussed    caucussing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    group meeting    meeting    assemble    foregather    gather    meet    forgather   
    Form
    caucused    caucusing   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    legislature    nomination    congressional    election    ballot    convention    council    delegate    suffrage    mayoral