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committee

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols 2 (context archaic English) a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Committee is a fictional organization in the Marvel Universe .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from commit + -ee , or else a revival of Anglo-French commite , past participle of commettre "to commit," from Latin committere "to unite, connect" (see commit ). Originally "person to whom something is committed" (late 15c.); from 17c. in reference ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Committee \Com`mit*tee"\, n. [From Commit , v. t.] (Law) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a committee/staff/board etc meeting ▪ A staff meeting will be held at 3 p.m. a committee/staff/family etc member ▪ Close friendships developed between crew members on the ship. a member of a committee/of staff etc ▪ ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle [syn: commission ] a self-constituted organization to promote something [syn: citizens committee ]

Usage examples of committee.

Senate committee and the mess in his courtroom over this wrongful death case, apparently that insane law clerk is sending you a copy of his instructions to the jury just to make things more difficult for everyone since that seems to be his main purpose in life and, what is it now Lily.

Shellabarger of Ohio, the second member on the Committee, one of the ablest lawyers in the House, was in poor health.

Also on the reception committee were Mrs Richard Chase Griffen, an Abyssinian maid in green and silver, Mrs.

Isabelle described the latest session of the European parliamentary committee into adai rights.

Adams was appointed to a naval committee that met in a rented room at Tun Tavern, and it was Adams who drafted the first set of rules and regulations for the new navy, a point of pride with him for as long as he lived.

A committee was appointed, the committee of Five, as it became known, consisting of Jefferson, Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin, who had by now returned from his expedition to Canada but was ill and exhausted and rarely seen.

Jefferson may well have been the choice of the committee and out of deference or natural courtesy, he may well have offered Adams the honor.

Already Adams was serving on twenty-three committees, and that same week was assigned to three more, including an all-important new Continental Board of War and Ordnance, of which he was to be the president.

The two commissioners and a few workers at hand comprised the welcoming committee for the arrival of John Adams, the first President to occupy what only much later would become known as the White House.

The Aedile had been exiled to this tiny backwater city after the triumph of the Committee for Public Safety because he had spoken against the destruction of the records of past ages.

One is the bas-relief signed by Antonianos of Aphrodisias and found some fifty years ago on the property of an agronomic institute, the Fundi Rustici, in the Committee Room of which it is now placed.

BLS at last, seen his parents regain their self-respect, despite the oppressive grip of the Committee of Public Safety and State Security.

Strategy Committee is already working on a plan to at least destabilize and hopefully permanently derail the Talbott annexation.

Moreover, his position with Bechtel, a key Committee of 300 company of global dimensions, gave him access to countries that might otherwise have been suspicious of his Kissinger connection.

Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, to be held by the Roosevelt for President Club at the Biltmore Saturday.