Synonyms for committee
kəˈmɪt icom·mit·tee

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1. committee, commissionnoun

   a special group delegated to consider some matter

   "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle

   Synonyms:
   delegation, charge, commission, mission, military commission, perpetration, commissioning, delegacy, direction, citizens committee, committal, deputation

2. committee, citizens committeenoun

   a self-constituted organization to promote something

   Synonyms:
   commission, citizens committee

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1. • Administrative Unit
   • Nongovernmental Organization

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1. forum

   health committee, domywriting committee, teacher committee

   last year was the first meeting of the teacher committee.

   Submitted by dorishall on November 8, 2019  

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1. committeenoun

   Synonyms:
   board

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1. List of paraphrases for "committee":

   commission, board, panel, comité, committees, ctc, commissions, cric, jisc, eesc, comisión, comitã, committe

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1. Pat Cipollone:

   The Committee has failed to point to any authority establishing a legitimate legislative purpose for the Committee's unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive demands : including the demand to examine the entire investigative files of numerous individuals whom the President has chosen as his senior advisors, as I have explained in multiple previous letters, it is clearly established as a matter of law that the decision to grant or deny a security clearance is a discretionary function that belongs exclusively to the Executive Branch.

2. The Kentucky Republican:

   As a representative and the leader of the minority party, it is with neither regret nor satisfaction that I have concluded to not participate with this select committee’s abuse of power that stains this institution today and will harm it going forward, this committee is not conducting a legitimate investigation as Speaker Pelosi took the unprecedented action of rejecting the Republican members I named to serve on the committee.

3. James Allison:

   I was told by the Nobel Prize in Medicine committee when I was called this morning that this was the first prize they've ever given for cancer therapy.

4. Drew Hammill:

   Democrats have put forward strong, smart and effective border security solutions in the bipartisan conference committee, while the president still refuses to take a second shutdown off the table.

5. Clarence Thomas:

   , } The woman, we all know, was Anita Hill. And I was there as her story unfolded. Twenty-seven years ago, on Yom Kippur eve, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in my role as President of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, which became National Partnership for Women Families for Women Families. I was joined by wonderful colleagues, including Professor Patricia King of Georgetown University and Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center. At the time I testified that Judge Clarence Thomas appeared to lack a demonstrated commitment to equal justice. I stated that Judge Clarence Thomas record cast grave doubt on Judge Clarence Thomas commitment to affirm and support fundamental principles of equal employment opportunity, the constitutional protections against gender discrimination and reproductive freedom. Judge Clarence Thomas record had shown an extensive pattern of disregard of principles of fundamental importance to women and Women Families. The ugly double standard over Kavanaughs so-called youthRead MoreOf course, the parallels between then and now are unmistakable. Shortly after my testimony, Hill's story was leaked to the press, and Anita Hill was asked to testify before the Senate. What happened next continues to be one of the most disgraceful episodes in our country's modern history. Anita Hill came before the Senate and was greeted by an all-male panel, led by Republicans who sought to prosecute Anita Hill, while Democrats, at best, remained neutral fact-finders. This phony trial resulted in a gross imbalance of power and meant that no one defended Anita Hill and no one prosecuted Judge Clarence Thomas. What was on trial was not the fitness of Judge Clarence Thomas to be the next Supreme Court justice but instead Hill's moral character and reputation as a woman. Immediately after the hearing, it was branded as a.