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1. (n.) committee
a group of persons elected or appointed to perform some service or function, as to investigate or act upon a particular matter.
2. committee
an individual to whom the care of a person or a person's estate is committed.
Etymology: (1425–75; late ME < AF; see commit , -ee)
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| Definition of 'COMmittee' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) committee, commission
a special group delegated to consider some matter
"a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle
2. (noun) committee, citizens committee
a self-constituted organization to promote something
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1. (noun) committee
a group chosen to do a job, organize sth, etc.
the International Olympic Committee; the Committee on Environment and Public Works
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| Definition of 'COMmittee' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) COMmittee
one or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together
2. (verb) COMmittee
one to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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COMmittee
A thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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Sense: a number of persons, selected from a larger body, to deal with some special business, eg the running of the larger body's affairs
The committee meet(s) today; (
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 Afrikaans: komitee |
 Arabic: لَجْنَه |
 Bulgarian: комисия |
 Brazilian: comitê |
 Czech: výbor(ový) |
 German: der Ausschuß |
 Danish: komité; udvalg |
 Greek: επιτροπή |
 Spanish: comité, comisión |
 Estonian: komitee |
 Farsi: هیئت بررسی؛ کمیسیون |
 Finnish: komitea |
 French: comité |
 Hebrew: וַעֲדָה |
 Hindi: समिति |
 Croatian: odbor, povjerenstvo |
 Hungarian: bizottság |
 Indonesian: komite |
 Icelandic: nefnd |
 Italian: comitato, commissione |
 Japanese: 委員会 |
 Korean: 위원회 |
 Lithuanian: komitetas, komisija |
 Latvian: komiteja; komitejas- |
 Malay: jawatankuasa |
 Dutch: commissie |
 Norwegian: komité, nemnd, utvalg |
 Polish: komisja |
 Persian: هیئت بررسی؛ کمیسیون |
 Pashto: كميټه، هيئت |
 Portuguese: comissão |
 Romanian: de comitet) |
 Russian: комитет |
 Slovak: výbor; výborový |
 Slovenian: odbor |
 Serbian: komitet |
 Swedish: kommitté |
 Thai: คณะกรรมการ |
 Turkish: komisyon, kurul, heyet |
 Taiwanese: 委員會 |
 Ukrainian: комітет; комісія |
 Urdu: کمیٹی ، انجمن |
 Vietnamese: ủy ban |
 Chinese: 委员会 |
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