What does Caucus mean?

Definitions for Caucus
ˈkɔ kəscau·cus

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Caucus.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. caucusverb

    a closed political meeting

  2. caucusverb

    meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

Wiktionary

  1. caucusnoun

    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. caucusnoun

    A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.

  3. caucusverb

    To meet and participate in caucus.

  4. Etymology: One possibility is caucauasu

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  1. caucus

    A caucus is a meeting or gathering of members of a particular political party or group where they discuss policies, make decisions, select candidates, plan strategies or make choices related to their common interests. This term is commonly used in the context of legislative bodies or political parties.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Caucusnoun

    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. Caucusverb

    to hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses

  3. Etymology: [Etymology uncertain. Mr. J. H. Trumbull finds the origin of caucus in the N. A. Indian word cawcawwassough or ca cau-as'u one who urges or pushes on, a promoter. See citation for an early use of the word caucus.]

Wikidata

  1. Caucus

    A caucus is a meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement, especially in the United States. As the use of the term has been expanded, the exact definition has come to vary among political cultures.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Caucus

    kaw′kus, n. a private meeting of political wire-pullers to agree upon candidates to be proposed for an ensuing election, or to fix the business to be laid before a general meeting of their party: applied loosely to any influential committee in a constituency. [Ety. dub.; perh. John Smith's Algonkin word Caw-cawaassough, an adviser; perh. a corr. of 'caulkers' meetings.']

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Caucus

    a preliminary private meeting to arrange and agree on some measure or course to propose at a general meeting of a political party.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Caucus

    From the Caulkers of Boston, U.S., who shortly before the Revolution came into open conflict with the British soldiery. Meetings were held in the calk houses, and a Caulkers’ Club was formed. Since that time a political meeting of American citizens has been styled a Caucus.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Caucus in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Caucus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Caucus in a Sentence

  1. President Trump:

    I’m disappointed that it doesn’t go quicker, i like them a lot. I have great relationships – don’t forget most of them I didn’t even know. … But many of them like the Freedom Caucus came and I see them all the time, ‘we love our president, we’re doing this for our president.’ You look at that, you look at the moderates, it’s the same thing.

  2. Richard Shelby:

    I haven't said I'd vote for him or against him, but he hasn't been nominated yet. I've been on Senate Banking Committee a long time, chaired Senate Banking Committee three times, and I raised that in the caucus. Senate Banking Committee would be Senate Banking Committee, being a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve is an important job, and you should not have controversy following you in or out of the job.

  3. Donald Trump:

    You’ve got to go out and caucus, you’ve got to get out there. I don’t care what happens. If your wife leaves you for another man, if you leave your wife because you don’t like her, I don’t care what it is. If you’re sick, you’ve got to get out.

  4. Adam Schiff:

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives for a Democratic Caucus meeting in Washington back in March. Adam Schiff, the focus of Republicans' post-Mueller ire, says Mueller's conclusion would not affect his own committee's counterintelligence probes. ( AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) As both the special counsel and the Department of Justice have recognized, the Congress has a vital constitutional role in evaluating misconduct by the executive branch, including the president, and to assess and refine laws that address the sweeping and systematic invasion of our democracy by Russia, we therefore need these materials in order to do our job.

  5. Joe Biden:

    I was in a caucus with James Eastland. James Eastland never called me' boy.' James Eastland always called me' son,'.

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