capital vs caucus race

capital

noun
  • Knowledge; awareness; proficiency. 

  • A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it. 

  • Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system. 

  • Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures). 

  • The most important city in the field specified. 

  • An uppercase letter. 

  • The uppermost part of a column. 

  • The chief or most important thing. 

adj
  • Of prime importance. 

  • Of or relating to the head. 

  • Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death. 

  • used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness 

  • Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation. 

  • Uppercase. 

caucus race

noun
  • A win-win system; a positive system in which everybody wins. 

  • The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus. 

  • A political competition; the game of campaigning and one-upmanship to get votes and be elected. 

  • A laborious but arbitrary and futile activity; an activity that amounts to running around in a circle, expending great energy but not accomplishing anything. 

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