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. Robert Menendez:

   Whenever I pursued [ the subject ], either in individual conversation or in questions before the full committee, no one alluded that there were any conversations going on with the Castro regime, one would begin to wonder to what degree State Department was engaged in all this. Certainly, as someone who is going to continue to have a leadership role on the committee on Senate Foreign Relations, it's going to create a doubt in my mind when State Department witnesses come before the committee. Are State Department witnesses either telling us the entire truth, or are State Department witnesses just shunned out of the process by White House ? Either way, it's going to create some real concerns( over) the veracity of what we're hearing in testimony, as we move forward.

2. Ro Khanna:

   The committee is working in a way that is consistent with American foreign policy.

3. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler:

   I am particularly concerned about reports that documents relevant to the Special Counsel investigation were sent outside the White House, waving applicable privileges, to this end, I have asked House Judiciary Committee to authorize me to issue subpoenas, if necessary, to compel the production of documents and testimony.

4. Dick Durbin:

   With this Supreme Court vacancy, President Biden has the opportunity to nominate someone who will bring diversity, experience, and an evenhanded approach to the administration of justice, i look forward to moving the President’s nominee expeditiously through the Committee.

5. Jason Chaffetz:

   Those restrictions are unacceptable. Under such restrictions, the committee cannot perform its essential duties to evaluate and propose much-needed legislative reforms for this troubled agency.