英语词汇“caucus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cau·cus

(kôkəs)

n. pl. cau·cus·es or cau·cus·ses

a. A meeting of the local members of a political party especially to select delegates to a convention or register preferences for candidates running for office.

b. A closed meeting of party members within a legislative body to decide on questions of policy or leadership.

c. A group within a legislative or decision-making body seeking to represent a specific interest or influence a particular area of policy: a minority caucus.

2. Chiefly British A committee within a political party charged with determining policy.

v. cau·cused, cau·cus·ing, cau·cus·es or cau·cussed or cau·cus·sing or cau·cus·ses

v.intr.

To assemble in or hold a caucus.

v.tr.

To assemble or canvass (members of a caucus).

[After the Caucus Club of Boston, an influential Colonial political organization around the time of the American Revolution , perhaps from Medieval Latin caucus, drinking vessel, variant of Latin caucum; akin to Greek kaukos (both Greek and Latin being borrowed from the same unknown source).]

单词	caucus
释义	cau·cus (kôkəs) n. pl. cau·cus·es or cau·cus·ses 1. a. A meeting of the local members of a political party especially to select delegates to a convention or register preferences for candidates running for office. b. A closed meeting of party members within a legislative body to decide on questions of policy or leadership. c. A group within a legislative or decision-making body seeking to represent a specific interest or influence a particular area of policy: a minority caucus. 2. Chiefly British A committee within a political party charged with determining policy. v. cau·cused, cau·cus·ing, cau·cus·es or cau·cussed or cau·cus·sing or cau·cus·ses v.intr. To assemble in or hold a caucus. v.tr. To assemble or canvass (members of a caucus). [After the Caucus Club of Boston, an influential Colonial political organization around the time of the American Revolution , perhaps from Medieval Latin caucus, drinking vessel, variant of Latin caucum; akin to Greek kaukos (both Greek and Latin being borrowed from the same unknown source).]
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