committee

com·mit·tee  (k-mt)

n.

1. A group of people officially delegated to perform a function, such as investigating, considering, reporting, or acting on a matter. See Usage Note at collective noun.

2. Archaic A person to whom a trust or charge is committed.

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[From Middle English committe, trustee, from Anglo-Norman comité, past participle of cometre, to commit, from Latin committere; see commit.]

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committee

n

1. a group of people chosen or appointed to perform a specified service or function

2. (Law) (formerly) a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his property was entrusted by a court See also receiver [2]

[from committen to entrust + -ee]

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Committee a group of people appointed or elected to administer, discuss, or make reports concerning a subject on which its members are authorities.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle commission administrative body, administrative unit - a unit with administrative responsibilities Economic and Social Council commission, ECOSOC commission - a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations blue ribbon commission, blue ribbon committee - an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" election commission - a commission delegated to supervise an election fairness commission - a commission delegated to ensure opportunities for the expression of opposing views planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments conservancy - a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river select committee - a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose subcommittee - a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose standing committee - a permanent committee steering committee - a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body ethics committee, ethics panel - a committee appointed to consider ethical issues finance committee - a committee appointed to consider financial issues politburo - the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party PAC, political action committee - committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates praesidium, presidium - a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session zoning commission - a commission delegated to supervise the zoning of areas for residential or commercial use jury, panel - a committee appointed to judge a competition vestry - in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church commissioner - a member of a commission committee member - a member of a committee
	2.	committee - a self-constituted organization to promote something citizens committee NGO, nongovernmental organization - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government vigilance committee - a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist welcoming committee - a committee to welcome new residents to a community

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committee

noun group, commission, panel, delegation, subcommittee, deputation My report was circulated to all committee members.

Quotations
"a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done" [attributed to Fred Allen]
"a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary" [Richard Harkness]
"Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking" [Art Linkletter A Child's Garden of Misinformation]

Proverbs
"A committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours"

Translations

committee [kəˈmɪtɪ]

A. N → comité m, comisión f
to be or sit on a committee → ser miembro de un comité
committee of inquiry (Parl) → comisión f investigadora
see also executive C
see also management B

B. CPD committee meeting N → reunión f del comité
committee member N → miembro mf del comité
committee stage N (Parl) fase en la que un proyecto de ley está siendo estudiado por un comité

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committee [kəˈmɪti] n → comité m, commission f
to be on a committee → faire partie d'un comité, faire partie d'une commission
committee meeting n → réunion f de comité, réunion f de commission

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committee

n → Ausschuss m (also Parl), → Komitee nt; to be or sit on a committee → in einem Ausschuss or Komitee sein or sitzen; Committee of 100 (Brit) → Komitee der Hundert; committee meeting → Ausschusssitzung f; committee member → Ausschussmitglied nt

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committee [kəˈmɪtɪ] n takes sg or pl vb → comitato, commissione f (Parliament) → commissione
committee of inquiry → commissione d'inchiesta
to be on a committee → far parte di un comitato or di una commissione

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committee

n or n pl committee [kəˈmiti]

a number of persons, selected from a larger body, to deal with some special business, eg the running of the larger body's affairs The committee meet(s) today; (also adjective ) a committee meeting. komitee لَجْنَه комисия výbor(ový) komité; udvalg der Ausschuß επιτροπή comité, comisión komitee هیئت بررسی؛ کمیسیون komitea comité וַעֲדָה समिति odbor, povjerenstvo bizottság komite nefnd comitato, commissione 委員会 위원회 komitetas, komisija komiteja; komitejas- jawatankuasa commissie komité, nemnd, utvalg komisja comissão de comitet) комитет výbor; výborový odbor komitet kommitté คณะกรรมการ komisyon, kurul,heyet 委員會 комітет; комісія کمیٹی ، انجمن ủy ban 委员会

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committee → لجنة komise komité Ausschuss επιτροπή comité komitea comité komitet comitato 委員会 위원회 commissie komité komitet comité, comitê комитет kommitté คณะกรรมการ komite ủy ban 委员会