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English Dictionary: committee by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
committee
n
  1. a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle
    Synonym(s): committee, commission
  2. a self-constituted organization to promote something
    Synonym(s): committee, citizens committee
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Committee \Com`mit*tee"\, n. [From {Commit}, v. t.] (Law)
      One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as
      of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Committee \Com*mit"tee\, n. [Cf. OF. comit[82] 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}.]
      One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter
      or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by
      a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
  
      {Committee 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.
  
      {Standing committee}. See under {Standing}.
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