Committee vs Caucus - What's the difference?
committee | caucus |
a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols
(archaic) a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.
(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,
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As nouns the difference between committee and caucus
is that committee is a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols while caucus is 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
to meet and participate in caucus.committee
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Alternative forms
* (contraction)Noun
(wikipedia committee) (en noun)Derived terms
* committeeman * committeeperson * committeewoman * subcommitteecaucus
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(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."
