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Definition of Caucus
1. Noun. A closed political meeting.
2. Verb. Meet to select a candidate or promote a policy.
Definition of Caucus
1. 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.
2. v. i. To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.
Definition of Caucus
1. Noun. (American English) 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. ¹
2. Noun. (Canada) A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party. ¹
3. Verb. To meet and participate in caucus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caucus
1. to hold a political meeting [v -CUSED, -CUSING, -CUSES or -CUSSED, -CUSSING, -CUSSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caucus
Literary usage of Caucus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"R. Bradley, senator from Vermont, who had been chairman of the caucus in 1804,
... The result of this caucus had already been determined by private ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"Meanwhile the minority party may also hold its caucus and decide on an equally
binding ... From this description it will be clear that the caucus is another ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"But the Republicans went a step further, and, at a "caucus" of ... The custom
of "caucus" nomination thus introduced was followed in 1808, in 1812, in 1816, ..."
4. Nominations for Elective Office in the United States by Frederick William Dallinger (1897)
"The organization and procedure of such a caucus were the same as that of a joint
... From the beginning the caucus had to encounter opposition such as was ..."
5. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski, Frederick Clarke (1922)
"(The failure of the last Congressional caucus had almost nullified the nomination
of Crawford made by it, and instead of the usual ..."
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