Caucus vs Postcaucus - What's the difference?
caucus | postcaucus |
(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.
(US, Canada) A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
(US) To meet and participate in caucus.
* 2006 , Associated Press, (reprinted in the Boston Globe) [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/11/13/lieberman_wont_rule_out_gop_caucusing/], November 13,
As a noun caucus
is (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.As a verb caucus
is (us) to meet and participate in caucus.As an adjective postcaucus is
after a caucus.caucus
English
Noun
(es)Derived terms
* caucus raceVerb
(es)- "Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said yesterday that he will caucus with Senate Democrats in the new Congress, but he would not rule out switching to the Republican caucus if he starts to feel uncomfortable among Democrats."