英语词汇caucus的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	caucus
词源	caucus. In American politics party leaders hold caucuses, off-the-record meetings, to select leaders and form policy. These leaders are in one sense counselors or advisers, and it is probably the Algonquin Indian word caucauasu, meaning “counselor or adviser,” that gives us the Americanism caucus, first recorded in 1773.
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