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   committee

   noun

   • 1. a group of people appointed for a specific function by a larger group and typically consisting of members of that group: "the housing committee"
   • ▪ (in the UK) a committee appointed by Parliament to consider the details of proposed legislation: "there was much scrutiny in committee"
   • ▪ (in the UK) the whole House of Commons when sitting as a committee.
   • 2. a person entrusted with the charge of another person or another person's property.
   • ▪ a person who has been judicially committed to the charge of another because of insanity or intellectual disability. US

   Word Origin late 15th century (in the general sense ‘person to whom something has been entrusted’): from commit + -ee.

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