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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Committee \Com*mit"tee\, n. [Cf. OF comit['e] 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}. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: committee n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter [syn: {commission}] 2: a self-constituted organization to promote something [syn: {citizens committee}]
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