caucus
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 →
2) A group of people inside an organisation who share the same interests. tree →
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 →
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 →
- The party caucus met to choose a new leader. tree →
- In the Caucus-race, they ran round and round in a circle. tree →
- Iowa holds its caucus in winter. tree →
- Everybody won the Caucus-race, so everybody had a prize. tree →
- The caucus voted for the plan. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.