Definition of "welcoming committee" []

• A committee to welcome new residents to a community (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "A formal multispecies welcoming committee was hastily assembled north of the central landing disk."
• "Dirty-looking polybloods in tatters of blanket, stepping on hardened bare feet across raked gravel forecourts, holding out their hands until some welcoming committee came out with a cudgel."