Committee
[kə'mɪtɪ] or [kə'mɪti]
Definition
(noun.) a special group delegated to consider some matter; 'a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours' - Milton Berle.
(noun.) a self-constituted organization to promote something.
Editor: Sheldon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Board.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a committee, foretells that you will be surprised into doing some distasteful work. For one to wait on you, foretells some unfruitful labor will be assigned you.
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Examples
- It was hard, when Karkov spoke, to remember with what importance he, Andr?Marty, came from the Central Committee of the French Communist Party. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There were bodies of constables with blue staves, twenty committee-men with blue scarfs, and a mob of voters with blue cockades. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- After much discussion they appointed a committee to call on Sir Humphrey Davy and ask him to investigate the possibilities for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When a National Committee puts a megaphone to a man's mouth and tells him to yell, it is difficult for him to hear anything. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The ladies' committee-man, father, says Penelope. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I think it was exhibited before a committee that had something to do with the Capitol. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My dear Mrs Veneering, do let us resolve ourselves into a Committee of the whole House on the subject. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was permitted to set up his apparatus in the room of the House Committee on Commerce at the Capitol. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The Committee accordingly reported as follows:-- Sufficient evidence has been adduced to convince your Committee-- 1st. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Mr. Brooke re-entered the committee-room, saying, as carelessly as he could, This is a little too bad, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was as if a committee of jungle deer had taken and killed a tiger--a crime against nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sir Leicester, in the library, has fallen asleep for the good of the country over the report of a Parliamentary committee. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Had we seen the last of his angelic smile in the committee-room? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Ah, yes: one of your secret committee, said Mrs. Cadwallader, provokingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And he and t' other committee-men laid their plans. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Now, I am Chairwoman of Committees! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Its members were classed in the following committees: 1. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They threw themselves into committees in the most impassioned manner and collected subscriptions with a vehemence quite extraordinary. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Keep your noble sentiments for your Ladies' Committees, Godfrey. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- During the morning, meetings were held and all manner of committees set to work on the celebration ceremonies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the various agitations of vigilance committees and alliances for the suppression of the traffic they profess to see continued a work which the abolitionists began. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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