committee Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a special group delegated to consider some matter
    commission.
    • a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle
  2. noun a self-constituted organization to promote something
    citizens committee.

WordNet

Com*mit"tee noun
Etymology
Cf. OF. comité company, and LL. comitatus jurisdiction or territory of a count, county, assize, army. The word was apparently influenced by the verb commit, but not directly formed from it. Cf. County.
Definitions
  1. One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
Com`mit*tee" noun
Etymology
From Commit, v. t.
Definitions
  1. (Law) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

Webster 1913