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caucus races

caucus races is the plural of caucus race.

Meaning of caucus race

Noun (1)

caucus race (plural caucus races)

  1. (US, idiomatic) The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus.
    • Mr. Gingrich, who is now the minority whip, announced last week that he had rounded up more than 100 commitments from House Republicans for the caucus race to come after the election next year.1993 October 16, “Solomon Drops Out of Race To Be G.O.P. House Leader”, in New York Times
  2. (US, idiomatic) A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected.
    • […] she was backing southern moderate John Spratt in his strong but unsuccessful caucus race for Budget Committee chairman.1993, M. Barone, G. Ujifusa, R. E. Cohen, “The Almanac of American Politics 1994”, in National Journal, page 176

Noun (2)

caucus race (plural caucus races)

  1. (idiomatic) A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything.
    • With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for—perhaps—the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race.1955 October 17, "The Dodo's Dance", in Time magazine
  2. A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins.
    • Encourage caucus race resourcing: […] That is, the resourcing of the players would need to resemble the “caucus race” in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland – a race in which all the contestants won prizes. The best-known institutional arrangements for resourcing all legitimate comers in a...1996, Christopher Hood, David K. C. Jones, Accident and Design: Contemporary Debates in Risk Management, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 224

Questions about caucus races

What is caucus races the plural of?
Caucus races is the plural of caucus race.

Words near caucus races in the dictionary

  1. Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
  2. Cauchyan
  3. Cauchyian
  4. caucus
  5. caucus race
  6. caucus races
  7. caucus-goer
  8. caucus-goers
  9. caucusdom
  10. caucused
  11. caucuses

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