caucusとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː.kəs/
  • 韻: -ɔːkəs
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ(ː).kəs/, /ˈkɒ(ː).kəs/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ(ː).kəs/

名詞

caucus (複数形 caucuses または caucusses) (US, Canada, Israel, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, 古風な用法 in Britain, not used in the European Union)

1. A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy.
   • 1788, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America:

     He conferred with Mr. Warren of Plymouth upon the necessity of giving into spirited measures, and then said, "Do you keep the committee in play, and I will go and make a caucus against the evening; and do you meet me."

2. A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.

   Synonym: parliamentary group

3. A political interest group by members of a legislative body.

派生語

動詞

caucus (三人称単数 現在形 caucuses または caucusses, 現在分詞 caucusing または caucussing, 過去形および過去分詞形 caucused または caucussed)

1. (intransitive or transitive with with) To meet and participate in caucus.
   • 2006, Associated Press, (reprinted in the Boston Globe) [1], November 13,

     "Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said yesterday that he will caucus with Senate Democrats in the new Congress, but he would not rule out switching to the Republican caucus if he starts to feel uncomfortable among Democrats."

   • 2019 March 26, Rebecca Shabad; Dartunorro Clark, “Senate fails to advance Green New Deal as Democrats protest McConnell 'sham vote'”, in NBC news‎^[2]:

     Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted with Republicans against the measure, as did Sen. Angus King of Maine, an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats.

2. (transitive) To bring into or treat in caucus.
   • 2017 May 6, Chitagu, Tatenda, “Zanu PF to stage one-man chairmanship polls”, in NewsDay Zimbabwe‎^[3]:

     Although journalists from the private media were barred from entering the hall, different districts caucused the meeting, discussing the voting centres and other logistics.

Further reading

• caucus on Wikipedia.

参照

Latin

別の表記

• caucum^[1]

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καῦκος (kaûkos, “cup”).^[1][2] Ultimately, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *kaɸukos (“cup”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, hold”).

名詞

caucus m (genitive caucī); second declension^[3][4][5][1]

1. (Late Latin) goblet, cup

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Old English: ċēac^[5] (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: cauc

参照