Definitions for committee
kəˈmɪt icom·mit·tee

Princeton's WordNet(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. committee, commission(noun)

   a special group delegated to consider some matter

   "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle

2. committee, citizens committee(noun)

   a self-constituted organization to promote something

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. committee(Noun)

   a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols

2. committee(Noun)

   a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.

Origin: comité, past participle of commettre, from committere, from con- + mittere.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Committee(noun)

   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. Committee(verb)

   one to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian

Origin: [From Commit, v. t.]

Freebase(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Committee

   A committee is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly—which when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the "Committee of the Whole". Committees often serve several different functions: ⁕Governance: in organizations considered too large for all the members to participate in decisions affecting the organization as a whole, a committee is given the power to make decisions, spend money, or take actions. Some or all such powers may be limited or effectively unlimited. For example of the later case, the Board of directors can frequently enter into binding contracts and make decisions which once taken or made, can't be taken back or undone under the law. ⁕Coordination: individuals from different parts of an organization might meet regularly to discuss developments in their areas, review projects that cut across organizational boundaries, talk about future options, etc. Where there is a large committee, it is common to have smaller committees with more specialized functions - for example, Boards of Directors of large corporations typically have an audit committee, finance committee, compensation committee, etc. Large academic conferences are usually organized by a co-ordinating committee drawn from the relevant professional body.

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. committee

   A thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'committee' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #518

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'committee' in Written Corpus Frequency: #481

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'committee' in Nouns Frequency: #157

How to pronounce committee?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of committee in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of committee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of committee in a Sentence

1. Craig Crawford:

   The Democratic National Committee.

2. Kenneth Gross:

   They might as well be one committee.

3. Sir Alec Issigonis:

   A camel is a horse designed by committee.

4. Bob Stokes:

   The world is proof that God is a committee.

5. House Democrats:

   Judiciary Committee will proceed accordingly.

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