committee

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ noun
[C+sing./pl. v.] a group of people who are chosen, usually by a larger group, to make decisions or to deal with a particular subject: She's on the management committee. + The committee has / have decided to close the restaurant. + a committee member / a member of the committee + a committee meeting + The player was fined by the disciplinary committee.

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

council, board, cabinet, panel, body, commission:

They have set up a committee to oversee park planning.

Collocation dictionary

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ADJ.

central | joint | standing | ad hoc, special | select | executive, management, steering | advisory, consultative | disciplinary | appeal | audit, finance, planning, selection, strike

VERB + COMMITTEE

create, establish, form, set up | chair

Lord Stansfield will chair the committee.

| appoint (sb to), elect (sb to)

He was appointed to the advisory committee last month.

| be on, serve on, sit on

She serves on several committees.

| leave, stand down from | disband

COMMITTEE + VERB

meet

The committee meets every Thursday.

COMMITTEE + NOUN

member | meeting

PREP.

on a/the ~

I talked to some of the people on the committee.

| ~ on

a committee on the safety of medicines

More information about ORGANIZATION

ORGANIZATION:

create, establish, form, found, set up, start ~

an association created to promote local industry The company was founded in 1981.

dissolve ~

(often law)She sought a court order to have the partnership dissolved.

run ~

He runs an accountancy firm.

manage ~

The executive committee manages the group on a day-to-day basis.

be/become a member of, join ~

She became a member of the Society of Arts.

leave ~

The country plans to leave the organization.

Concise English dictionary

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committeeskə'mɪtɪ
noun
+a special group delegated to consider some matter
+a self-constituted organization to promote something