committee : Idioms & Phrases

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blue ribbon committee

  • noun an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
    blue ribbon commission.
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citizens committee

  • noun a self-constituted organization to promote something
    committee.
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Commitee of the whole [house]

  • a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of different rules from those governing the general legislative proceedings. The committee of the whole has its own chairman, and reports its action in the form of recommendations.
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committee for state security

  • noun formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia
    KGB; Soviet KGB.
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committee meeting

  • noun a meeting for administrative purposes
    board meeting.
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committee member

  • noun a member of a committee
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ethics committee

  • noun a committee appointed to consider ethical issues
    ethics panel.
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finance committee

  • noun a committee appointed to consider financial issues
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Joint committee

  • (Parliamentary Practice), a committee composed of members of the two houses of a legislative body, for the appointment of which concurrent resolutions of the two houses are necessary. Cushing.
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political action committee

  • noun committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates
    PAC.
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security intelligence review committee

  • noun an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies
    SIRC.
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select committee

  • noun a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose
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Standing committee

  • noun a permanent committee
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  • in legislative bodies, etc., a committee appointed for the consideration of all subjects of a particular class which shall arise during the session or a stated period.
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steering committee

  • noun a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body
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Vigilance committee

  • noun a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist
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  • a volunteer committee of citizens for the oversight and protection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.
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ways and means committee

  • noun a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue
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welcoming committee

  • noun a committee to welcome new residents to a community
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