Usually means: Group organized for specific purpose.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. committee: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. committee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. committee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. committee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. committee: Vocabulary.com
  6. Committee, committee, committee: Wordnik
  7. committee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. committee: Wiktionary
  9. committee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. committee: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Committee, The Committee (film), The Committee (improv group), The Committee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Committee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. committee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. committee: Rhymezone
  15. committee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. committee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Committee: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. committee: Free Dictionary
  19. committee: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. committee: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. committee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. committee: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. committee: Dictionary.com
  24. committee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. committee: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. committee: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  5. committee: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. committee: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. committee: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. committee: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. committee: Golfer's Dictionary
  2. Committee: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themselves.
▸ noun:  (Pakistan, British Pakistani, finance) Alternative form of kameti [A ROSCA in Pakistan (an informal rotating pool-in monthly money saving scheme).]

Similar:
commission, citizens committee, subcommittee, committe, commitee, council, taskforce, chairperson, chairman, commissioner, more...

Opposite:
individual, solitary, lone, single, personal

Types:
executive committee, finance committee, audit committee, advisory committee, steering committee, oversight committee, more...

Phrases:
Central committee, executive committee, select committee, national committee, committee members, more...

Adjectives:
executive, special, sub, central, joint, advisory, select, national, local, congressional, parliamentary

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Similar:
commission, citizens committee, subcommittee, committe, commitee, council, taskforce, chairperson, chairman, commissioner, more...

Opposite:
individual, solitary, lone, single, personal

Types:
executive committee, finance committee, audit committee, advisory committee, steering committee, oversight committee, more...

Phrases:
Central committee, executive committee, select committee, national committee, committee members, joint committee, standing committee, special committee, house committee, steering committee, committee report, more...

Adjectives:
executive, special, sub, central, joint, advisory, select, national, local, congressional, parliamentary

Colors:
    burgundy,     forest green,     charcoal,     slate gray,     maroon, more...



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