committee
IPA: kʌmˈɪti
noun
- A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
- (archaic) A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themselves.
- (Pakistan, British Pakistani, finance) Alternative form of kameti [A ROSCA in Pakistan (an informal rotating pool-in monthly money saving scheme).]
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Examples of "committee" in Sentences
- It looks like Chicken's Don't Have Armpits isn't even going to be a choice that the title committee will look at.
- Long is quick to use the word committee when talking about his backs, but it's clear he likes Sims' total package.
- The RUC's Dr. Levy says the committee is already recommending changes for services that have moved to an outpatient setting.
- RUC Chairwoman Barbara Levy says the committee is an expert panel, not meant to be representative, and that members don't vote in blocs tied to their specialties 'interests.
- Dr. Levy says the committee is an expert panel, not meant to be representative, adding: "The outcomes are independent of who's sitting at the table from one specialty or another."
- [AS] And, one of the aspects of the work that has been highlighted by the committee is the ribosome's interaction with antibiotics and the hope that understanding the structural nature of those interactions will ...
- But this morning we are in committee, and the committee is discussing an important matter, and it was on purely moral grounds that I raised my voice against the sale of pornographic literature or newspapers on the streets of, our cities.
- The committee may be either a standing committee, appointed for a definite time, as a session or a year; or a special [or select] committee, appointed for a special purpose; or a committee of the whole consisting of the entire assembly.
- It is, doubtless, in humble imitation of such illustrious examples, that an Irishman of the lowest class, when he means to express that he is a member of a committee, says, _I am a committee_; thus consolidating the power, wisdom, and virtue of a whole committee in his own person.
- * The term committee in those ear'y days was sometimes applied even to the Continental Congress (see Jones 'Defence; and the veteran John Simeson, speaker of the authorized County Committees or Congresses.) On the other hand, the ancestral name of McKnitt was held by no family in the county, and he accepted the soubriquet from the mouth of those who held him in the highest esteem both in Church and State.
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