caucus

  1. Noun.  (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.
  2. Noun.  (Canada) A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
  3. Verb.  To meet and participate in caucus.

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