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Caucus   /kˈɔkəs/  /kˈɑkəs/   Listen
noun
Caucus  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. "This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment."


verb
Caucus  v. i.  (past & past part. caucused; pres. part. caucusing)  To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.





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"Caucus" Quotes from Famous Books



... inserted in the Bill until the Act finally embodied all the proposals brought forward by General Hertzog. The promise to refer the Bill to a Select Committee was also broken, presumably as a result of pressure from the caucus. The Government could not face a Select Committee after this complete change of front as they must have known that reason was absolutely ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
... revoir, Lady Elaine. [Aside.] You do not know how you have been tempting me to abandon all my cherished political convictions for your sake. It is to be hoped that the Radicals will not follow up their success with the caucus by organising the young ladies of their party and letting them loose on society as propagandists of their Utopian ...
— Fashionable Philosophy - and Other Sketches • Laurence Oliphant
... you think you own the earth, but when you strike the southern country where the white men have not sold their cotton and the negroes have not been paid for picking it, the audience looks like a political caucus in an off year, when there is nobody with money enough to stimulate the voters. When the audiences are small, and half the people in attendance get in on bill-sticker's passes, and you can't pay the help regularly, but have to stand them ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck
... member of this caucus, "anybody'd think that this whole town had ought to turn in and just die of thirst on account of a man that ain't much bigger than a pint of cider and never did have no proper stomach. Why, who ever heard of sech a thing as a whole town being run ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... the satisfaction, dear to the proud Spanish heart, of making a speech before a Senate of Americans, in favor of the retention in office of an officer of our army who was wounded at San Pazqual and whom some wretched caucus was going to displace to carry out a political job. Don Andres's magnanimity and indignation carried ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana


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