caucus 
caucus
Definition
☆ cau·cus (kô′kəs)
noun
- a private meeting of leaders or a committee of a political party or faction to decide on policy, pick candidates, etc., esp. prior to a general, open meeting
- the group attending such a meeting
- a faction or group of politicians the black Congressional caucus
- a controlling organization within a British political party
Etymology: prob. after Caucus Club, 18th-c. social and political club; ult. < MGr kaukos, drinking cup
intransitive verb caucused -·cused or caucussed -·cussed, caucusing -·cus·ing or caucussing -·cus·sing
to hold, or take part in, a caucus
caucus
Synonyms
caucus
Law Definition
n
A meeting of the leaders, members, or representatives of a political party to
select the partys nominees or convention delegates, plan a campaign, or
develop party policy or strategy.
n
An organized
group of members of a legislative body who share a common interest and work
together to further those interests through legislation.
n
Any group or meeting organized to advance a particular cause.
v
To meet in or hold a caucus.
caucus
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- form: Together they form the Congressional Hispanic Caucus which attempts to work together to address issues that affect all their constituencies.
- join: The blame lies partly on those Indian-Americans who convinced their reps to join the caucus but never held them accountable for not being active.
- address: Owing to our revolt against the dominance of the old Whigs, three gentlemen of advanced views were selected to address the Liberal caucus.
- call: A. What they call the caucus of the party the central committee ( a term not unknown to communist regimes!
Adjective modifier
- Democratic: When the Democratic caucus met in closed session, the Stevenson speech was ignored.
- black: Only the black caucus in the House of Representatives has had the courage to openly protest, but to no avail.
- other: Are Gender, Youth and other caucuses that were there for WSIS still in existence?
- liberal: Andrew is the leader of the Liberal caucus on the Convention which has shaped the draft Constitution for Europe.
- human: I am part of the WSIS human rights caucus and also the privacy and security working group.
- democratic: A lot tougher the democratic caucus based in los.
Modifies a noun
- meeting: Lucien votes with his fellow Club members they have decided in their initial caucus meeting which Motions they want to see passed.
- list: We talked = previously on the caucus list about taking ITU up on such statements, = but never acted.
- system: Some states, such as Iowa, use a caucus system rather than primaries to choose their delegates.
- group: After the discussion, the LGBT caucus steering group was elected.
Noun used with modifier
- Latin: You could check our mailing list archives and the names of the people that decided within latin american caucus.
- youth: So the youth caucus view on the issue of water might be different to the UK view.
- American: Latin american caucus is still working within the original mailing list.
- Internet: The all-party internet group has also pioneered twinning with its American counterpart, the internet caucus.
- party: Running councilor workshops and giving presentations to party caucus meetings were highly effective in winning confidence.
- right: I am part of the WSIS human rights caucus and also the privacy and security working group.
Caucus Quotes
I donot mind the Liberals, still less do Imind the Country party, calling me a bastard. In some circumstances, I am only doing my job if they do. But I hope that you will not publicly call me a bastard, as some bastards in the Caucus have.
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