committee
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
committee
▶noun
- 1 /kəˈmɪti/ [treated as sing. or pl.] a group of people appointed for a specific function by a larger group.
■ a committee appointed by Parliament to consider proposed legislation.
■ (Committee of the whole House) the whole House of Commons when sitting as a committee.
- 2 /ˌkɒmɪˈtiː/ Law a person entrusted with the charge of another person or another person's property.
■ chiefly US a person who has been judicially committed to the charge of another because of insanity or mental disability.
'committee' also found in these Oxford entries:
act
- ASDIC
- blue riband
- cabinet
- chairman
- commit
- committee stage
- congregation
- convener
- co-opt
- delegacy
- delegate
- EC
- ESC
- executive
- formal
- House of Lords
- ICRC
- IOC
- manager
- motion
- National Hunt
- NEC
- NTSC
- on
- pack
- plenum
- politburo
- presidium
- propaganda
- propose
- quorum
- report
- Scart
- second reading
- select committee
- sit
- standing committee
- steering committee
- subcommittee
- syndicate
- third reading
- vigilance committee
- Watch Committee
