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n. 1 (context management English) A subcommittee of a board auhorized to make some decisions on behalf of the entire board. 2 (context government politics Quebec English) the equivalent of the cabinet of ministers for a city government, serving the mayor.
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An Executive Committee was the title of a three-person committee which served as the executive Branch of the Provisional Government of Oregon in the disputed Oregon Country. This arrangement was announced on July 5, 1843, after three months of study by the Provisional Legislature at Champoeg. Two different Executive Committees served until the system was abandoned in 1845 in favor of an elected single chief executive.
An executive committee is a committee with executive powers.
Executive Committee may also refer to:
- Executive Committee (Oregon Country) a provisional government in what became the U.S. state of Oregon
- Executive Committee of the Communist International
- Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, a government body in the United Kingdom 1922–1972
- Northern Ireland Executive, a government body in the United Kingdom
- Northern Ireland Executive (1973), under the Sunningdale Agreement
- Executive Committee Range, a mountain range in Antarctica
- EXCOMM, the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, Kennedy advisors during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
- Provisional Committee of the State Duma, which declared itself the governing body of the Russian Empire in March 1917
Usage examples of "executive committee".
At an afternoon Executive Committee meeting, Secretary of Defense McNamara made a routine report on the day's daylight reconnaissance mission.
For these reasons, the supporters of Chase had now started a national organization, with a Republican National Executive Committee at Washington, whose chairman is Senator Pomeroy.
These block votes can ensure the passage of any resolution and elect up to a third of the Party's all-important National Executive Committee.
But I might be able to give you something for the Executive Committee or the White House.
That's why everything you will be doing is fully covered by treaty and approved by the new executive committee of the UN Security Council-so there'll be no violation of law to worry about.
His manager is offered a vice-chairmanship and a place on the executive committee.
If some old fuddy-duddy is now chairman and can't conduct a meeting properly you can always carry out basic business in a committee-of-the-whole, with your own choice as chairman of the committee-of-the-whole - or you can through an executive committee - or provide the office of parliamentarian-or even teach him some parliamentary law if you are subtle about it.
The full-blown Executive Committee of seven argued the issue back and forth.