caucus

• n. 幹部會議；核心會議
• vi. 召開幹部會議；開核心會議

可能來自北美印第安土著語，義為長者。

caucus

caucus: [18] Caucus ‘closed party meeting’ is believed to be of native American origin. Certainly its early usage was restricted to the USA (it did not reach British English until the 1870s, when it became something of a political buzzword for a time). In form and meaning it strongly resembles caucauasu, a word meaning ‘counsellor’ in the Algonquian languages of eastern Canada and the USA which was recorded in print by Captain John Smith (1580– 1631), an early English colonist in America.

caucus (v.)

1850, from caucus (n.), but caucusing is attested from 1788.

caucus (n.)

"private meeting of party leaders," 1763, American English (New England), perhaps from an Algonquian word caucauasu "counselor, elder, adviser" in the dialect of Virginia, or from the Caucus Club of Boston, a 1760s social & political club whose name possibly derived from Modern Greek kaukos "drinking cup." Another old guess is caulker's (meeting) [Pickering, 1816], but OED finds this dismissable.

caucus: "This noun is used throughout the United States, as a cant term for those meetings, which are held by the different political parties, for the purpose of agreeing upon candidates for office, or concerting any measure, which they intend to carry at the subsequent public, or town meetings." [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]

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The word caucus, and its derivative caucusing, are often used in Boston. The last answers much to what we stile parliamenteering or electioneering. All my repeated applications to different gentlemen have not furnished me with a satisfactory account of the origin of caucus. It seems to mean, a number of persons, whether more or less, met together to consult upon adopting and prosecuting some scheme of policy, for carrying a favorite point. [William Gordon, "History, Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America," London, 1788]

1. the Congressional Black Caucus

美國國會提倡黑人民權的核心小組

來自《權威詞典》

2. This multi-staged caucus takes several months.

這個多級會議常常曆時好幾個月。

來自辭典例句

3. Caucus - goers supporting non - viable candidates can then switch to another candidate.

支持“被認為不可能勝出”的侯選人的選民可以轉而支持別的侯選人.

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4. In Maine, the Republican Party is holding a caucus.

在美國緬因州, 共和黨團會議的投票活動正在如火如荼地開展.

來自互聯網

5. This multi - staged caucus convention system takes several months.

這個多級會議(會)度常常曆時好幾個月.

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