Caucus vs. Primary

Caucusnoun

(US) 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.

Caucusnoun

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

Caucusverb

(US) To meet and participate in caucus.

Caucusnoun

A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.

Caucusverb

To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

Caucusnoun

a closed political meeting

Caucusverb

meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

Caucus

A caucus is a meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement. The exact definition varies between different countries and political cultures.

Primaryadjective

The first in a group or series.

Primaryadjective

Main; principal; placed ahead of others.

Primaryadjective

(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.

Primaryadjective

(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

Primaryadjective

(medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.

Primaryadjective

(medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

Primarynoun

A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

Primarynoun

The first year of grade school.

Primarynoun

A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

Primarynoun

The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.

Primarynoun

A primary school.

Primarynoun

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.

Primarynoun

A primary colour.

Primarynoun

(medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.

Primarynoun

(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary

Primaryverb

To knock out an incumbent in the primary election, typically used referring to a non-incumbent challenger.

Primaryverb

To take part in a primary election.

Primaryverb

To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election

Primaryadjective

First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

Primaryadjective

First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.

Primaryadjective

First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.

Primaryadjective

Earliest formed; fundamental.

Primaryadjective

Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

Primarynoun

That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.

Primarynoun

A primary meeting; a caucus.

Primarynoun

One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.

Primarynoun

A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.

Primarynoun

a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

Primarynoun

one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

Primarynoun

coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit;

Primaryadjective

of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand;

Primaryadjective

not derived from or reducible to something else; basic;

Primaryadjective

most important element;

Primaryadjective

of or being the essential or basic part;

Primaryadjective

of primary importance;

Primaryadjective

of chief importance; principal

Primaryadjective

earliest in time or order

Primaryadjective

not derived from, caused by, or based on anything else; original

Primaryadjective

belonging to or directly derived from the first stage of development or growth

Primaryadjective

relating to or denoting education for children between the ages of about five and eleven

Primaryadjective

former term for Palaeozoic

Primaryadjective

relating to or denoting the input side of a transformer or other inductive device.

Primaryadjective

(of an organic compound) having its functional group located on a carbon atom which is bonded to no more than one other carbon atom

Primaryadjective

(chiefly of amines) derived from ammonia by replacement of one hydrogen atom by an organic group.

Primarynoun

(in the US) a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election

Primarynoun

a primary colour.

Primarynoun

a primary feather.

Primarynoun

the body orbited by a smaller satellite or companion.

Primarynoun

a primary coil or winding in an electrical transformer.

Primarynoun

the Palaeozoic era.