Caucus

['kɔːkəs] or ['kɔkəs]

解释:

(noun.) a closed political meeting.

(verb.) meet to select a candidate or promote a policy.

卡特编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

编辑:奥斯本

解释:

n. a private meeting of political wire-pullers to agree upon candidates to be proposed for an ensuing election or to fix the business to be laid before a general meeting of their party: applied loosely to any influential committee in a constituency.

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