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# caucus

«caucus» in Mova's school dictionary: **A meeting of members of a political party or group to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a caucus, caucuses); verb (caucus, caucuses, caucused, caucusing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (politics) A meeting of members of a political party or group to choose candidates or decide what to do, especially in the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#m1)

2) A group of people inside an organisation who share the same interests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#m2)

3) (Alice) The Caucus-race in Alice in Wonderland is a silly race where everyone runs in a circle, starting and stopping when they like, and at the end the Dodo says «Everybody has won, and all must have prizes». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the US, the Iowa caucuses help choose presidential candidates. In New Zealand and Australia, a party caucus is its members of parliament meeting together. In Alice, Carroll is making fun of politics: the caucus-race goes nowhere and everybody wins, to dry the animals off after the pool of tears. Phrase: «everybody has won and all must have prizes».

### examples

- The Dodo said the best way to get dry was a Caucus-race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#x1)
- The party caucus met to choose a new leader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#x2)
- In the Caucus-race, they ran round and round in a circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#x3)
- Iowa holds its caucus in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#x4)
- Everybody won the Caucus-race, so everybody had a prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#x5)
- The caucus voted for the plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/#x6)

### note

Plural caucuses. Sounds like «CAW-kus». Mostly a politics word in the US, Australia and NZ.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caucus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caucus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.