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. Melissa Jacobs:

   They had brought on an advisory committee and they went to educate players and especially men to stand up when they see something. And then that just went away.

2. Michael Bennet:

   The American people deserve timely answers about the objects that were shot down over Lake Huron, Alaska, and Canada this weekend, we need to understand the nature of the threat to our national security. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I expect to be briefed on these incidents early this week.

3. Jim McGovern:

   President [Donald] Trump repeatedly mislabeled COVID with racist language, such rhetoric coincided with spikes in hate-based acts of violence and discrimination against people of Chinese or Asian origin across our country. This language has no place on this committee or anywhere in Congress.

4. Laura Martin:

   Disney couldn't do this, and Apple couldn't do this. They're run by committee, if it was a company run by committee, they would have to react, because the committee — the board of directors — would be threatening to fire the CEO to protect revenue. That doesn't have to happen here.

5. John Barrasso:

   It's clear that Ms. Stone-Manning was intentionally trying to deceive the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, she told the committee she had never been the subject of an investigation and yet complained about being investigated in the press.