Word Meanings - CAUCUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: CAUCUS

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. John Adams's Diary . (more info) origin of caucus in the N. A. Indian word cawcawwassough or caú cau- as'u one who urges or pushes on, a promoter. See citation for an

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAUCUS)

• Conclave
• Council
• assembly
• bureau
• synod
• cabinet
• caucus

Related words: (words related to CAUCUS)

• BUREAUCRAT
  An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.
• BUREAUCRATIST
  An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• SYNODIC; SYNODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet.
• COUNCILMAN
  A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
• COUNCILOR
  A member of a council. Note: The distinction between councilor, a member of a council, and counselor, one who gives councel, was not formerly made, but is now very generally recognized and observed.
• SYNODAL
  Synodical. Milton.
• SYNODIST
  An adherent to a synod. These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. Fuller.
• SYNOD
  An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. Note: Synods are of four kinds: 1. General, or ecumenical, which are compopsed of bishops from different nations; -- commonly called general council. 2. National, composed of bishops
• BUREAUCRATIC; BUREAUCRATICAL
  Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.
• BUREAU
  table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr. OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color, fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. Fire, 1. Originally, a desk or writing table with
• COUNCIL
  calare to call, akin to Gr. hale, v., haul. Cf. Conciliate. This word 1. An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case. 2. A body of man elected
• BUREAUCRACY
  1. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also,
• CABINET
  1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser. 2. A small room, or retired apartment; a closet. 3. A private room in which consultations are held. Philip passed some hours
• ASSEMBLYMAN
  A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
• CABINETMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.
• CAUCUS
  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.
• SYNODICALLY
  In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod. "Synodically agreed upon." R. Nelson.
• CONCLAVE
  1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope. 2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.
• CABINETMAKING
  The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.
• WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
  See ASSEMBLY
• VATICAN COUNCIL
  The council held under Pope Pius IX. in Vatican at Rome, in 1870, which promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility.