Definition of "committee" []

• A group of people officially delegated to perform a function, such as investigating, considering, reporting, or acting on a matter. See Usage Note at collective noun. (noun)
• Archaic A person to whom a trust or charge is committed. (noun)

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• "The committee may be either a “standing committee, ” appointed for a definite time, as a session or a year; or a “special [or select] committee, ” appointed for a special purpose; or a “committee of the whole” consisting of the entire assembly."
• "It is, doubtless, in humble imitation of such illustrious examples, that an Irishman of the lowest class, when he means to express that he is a member of a committee, says, _I am a committee_; thus consolidating the power, wisdom, and virtue of a whole committee in his own person."
• "It looks like Chicken's Don't Have Armpits isn't even going to be a choice that the title committee will look at."