Definitions for Committees
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1. committees

   A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible if the assembly itself were considering them. Committees may have different functions and their types of work differ depending on the type of the organization and its needs. A member of a legislature may be delegated a committee assignment, which gives them the right to serve on a certain committee.

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1. committeesnoun

   Plural noun of the word committee.

   The government set up regional committees to ensure they were allocating and spending regional funding in a fair and just way and it only went to where it was needed.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on July 2, 2016  

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   Rank popularity for the word 'Committees' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3684

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Committees' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2775

How to pronounce Committees?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Committees in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Committees in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Committees in a Sentence

1. Sean Moulton:

   The idea that one-third of these committees is going to go away is very troubling.

2. House Republicans:

   This is a sh-- show, without a speaker, you can't organize the House, which means committees can't send subpoenas or pay staff. We're supposed to govern, but you can't govern without a speaker in place.

3. Jason Kindrachuk:

   We can't just think about this in terms of the athletes, because it's not only the athletes that that are going to be a part of Tokyo Olympics -- you have the organizing committees that are involved, you have all the people that are providing support, you have all the trainers, all of those are potential wheelbarrows for the virus coming into the community... You look at this idea of putting people into an international location from all over the world -- we only need one individual to kick off that transmission chain.

4. Robert Soros:

   Scott will continue to advise SFM on an informal basis and remains close to George Soros and the Soros family, upon Scott's departure, the firm's investment strategy and asset allocation will be managed by the existing committees established by Scott and myself, which already play an active role in both processes.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   I'm directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry.

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