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caucussed

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cau·cus   (kô'kəs)   
n.   pl. cau·cus·es or cau·cus·ses

    1. A meeting of the local members of a political party especially to select delegates to a convention or register preferences for candidates running for office.

    2. A closed meeting of party members within a legislative body to decide on questions of policy or leadership.

    3. A group within a legislative or decision-making body seeking to represent a specific interest or influence a particular area of policy: a minority caucus.

  2. Chiefly British A committee within a political party charged with determining policy.

v.   cau·cused or cau·cussed, cau·cus·ing or cau·cus·sing, cau·cus·es or cau·cus·ses

v.   intr.
To assemble in or hold a caucus.
v.   tr.
To assemble or canvass (members of a caucus).

[After the Caucus Club of Boston (in the 1760s), possibly from Medieval Latin caucus, drinking vessel.]
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