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Etymology 1 n. 1 (context US idiomatic English) The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus. 2 (context US idiomatic English) A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected. Etymology 2
alt. 1 (context originally British idiomatic English) A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything. 2 A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins. n. 1 (context originally British idiomatic English) A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything. 2 A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins.
Usage examples of "caucus race".
God knows why, maybe out of pique at being left behind), to the Caucus Race of the Malforms (where I fit right in, as crapped up and bloody as I was), to the Lair of the Blessed Profundity of the Unspeakable Trihll (which I could not, even if I had several mouths, pronounce.