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caucus| In the USA, a closed meeting of regular political party members; for example, to choose a candidate for office. The term was originally used in the 18th century in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| In the 1996 presidential nomination campaign, the Republican Party held three closed state caucuses and seven open caucus contests, the most significant being the Iowa caucus, held in early February. |
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| go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the Abolition-convention, or the Temperance-meeting, or the Transcendental club into the fields and woods, she says to us, 'So hot? |