Associations to the word «Caucus»

Wiktionary

CAUCUS, noun. (US) 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.
CAUCUS, noun. (US) (Canada) A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
CAUCUS, verb. (US) To meet and participate in caucus.
CAUCUS RACE, noun. (US) (idiomatic) The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus.
CAUCUS RACE, noun. (US) (idiomatic) A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected.
CAUCUS RACE, noun. (originally British) (idiomatic) A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.
CAUCUS RACE, noun. A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins.
CAUCUS RACES, noun. Plural of caucus race

Dictionary definition

CAUCUS, noun. A closed political meeting.
CAUCUS, verb. Meet to select a candidate or promote a policy.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats