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committee definition

com·mit·tee (kə mit′ē)

noun

  1. a group of people chosen, as from the members of a legislature or club, to consider, investigate, and report or act on some matter or on matters of a certain kind
  2. a group of people organized to support some cause
  3. Archaic someone into whose charge someone or something is committed

Etymology: ME committe, a representative < Anglo-Fr commité, pp. (for Fr commis) of commettre, to commit < L committere: see commit

committee Idioms

in committee

under consideration by a committee, as a resolution or bill

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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