COMMITTEE


Meaning of COMMITTEE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a committee/staff/board etc meeting

A staff meeting will be held at 3 p.m.

a committee/staff/family etc member

Close friendships developed between crew members on the ship.

a member of a committee/of staff etc

All members of staff attend regular training sessions.

a review body/committee/panel/board

We will set up a pay review body for all staff.

a selection committee (= a group of people responsible for choosing something )

All the exhibitors have been carefully chosen by a very experienced selection committee.

ad hoc committee/group etc

advisory committee/body

the Environmental Protection Advisory Committee

appear before a court/judge/committee etc

She appeared before Colchester magistrates charged with attempted murder.

Civil Contingencies Committee, the

disciplinary hearing/committee (= a meeting or group that decides if someone should be punished )

executive body/committee etc (= a group of people who have the power to make decisions )

political action committee

standing committee

A standing committee was established to coordinate the army and navy.

steering committee

welcoming committee/party

I was met by a welcoming committee.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

advisory

Prop 105 would require a charter review advisory committee to be established every 10 years.

But the Worcestershire diocesan advisory committee for the care of churches has been critical.

At the hearing, nearly all dischargers on the advisory committee favored disbanding the program.

In Committee, we discussed the report of the disabled persons transport advisory committee many times.

He served on a Commerce Department technical advisory committee .

Experience on statutory advisory committees to the health board has shown me how slow and often ineffectual they are.

The advisory committee report did little to resolve the mystery surrounding Gulf War illness.

central

No new members were elected to the party central committee .

The Cabinet, appointed by the President, is subordinate to the party's central committee .

A central committee draft law discussing the powers of the presidency of the party was also introduced at the plenum.

Hong Ha, 63, was the director of the office of the party central committee .

The congress re-elected Budragchaagiyn Dash-Yondon as chair of an enlarged 147-member central committee .

The central committee ideology department accused Kharchev of unnecessary interference in the internal affairs of churches and of financial indiscipline.

A new central committee would be chosen at an extraordinary congress, fixed for April 10.

His warning was couched in elliptical terms, in a wide-ranging speech to the party's central committee on Saturday.

congressional

But the congressional intelligence committees are like a black box.

The recommendations now move to the congressional intelligence committees , which are expected to introduce legislation incorporating the recommendations.

Continuous liaison with legislators is maintained by agencies at all levels of government. Congressional committees work closely with administrative officials.

Testifying before a congressional committee on Monday, &038;.

To most analysts, the way in which Congressional committees operate provides the key to understanding maps such as those displayed here.

Members of important congressional committees are jockeying to see him.

It was believed that the latter group had agreed to support him in return for the promise of positions on congressional committees .

Under the law, Reno has 30 days to respond to such petitions from congressional committees .

disciplinary

The record of the Disciplinary committee and all papers submitted to it will be made available to the Arbitrators.

Norwich City and Blackpool have been handed fines by the Football Association's disciplinary committee for failing to control their players.

Massingberd-Mundy complained to Lord Vestey, then chairman of the Club's disciplinary committee , about Steveney's remark.

Now, the North Midlands disciplinary committee are to entertain both father and son.

Stemp appeared before a disciplinary committee in Birmingham today - and was cleared of all blame for the incident.

When a decision has been reached, all concerned will be recalled and informed of the decision of the disciplinary committee .

He was hauled before the disciplinary committee after a video showed him clashing with opposition scrum-half Mike Ford during a brawl.

executive

Our executive committee is composed of voluntary members and a part-time national officer.

Under Dine, the ruling executive committee tripled in size.

On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform.

Such is the spark of creativity generated by the presence of a member of the executive committee demanding to be asked questions.

A week later the executive committee met at our Grosvenor Place headquarters.

We were going into an executive committee meeting for the firm at the Waldorf.

The executive committee members of Salomon Brothers decided the mortgage market was bad news.

They elect a 45-member board of directors, which in turns elects a seven-member executive committee , which hired Harlan.

joint

Democratic lawmakers are calling for a joint legislative committee to review the conduct of Gov.

Parliament on Aug. 6 approved the setting-up of a joint committee with extensive powers to probe the scandal.

The Congress meanwhile created a select joint committee to conduct hearings.

If the Bundestag is unable to convene, legislative power goes to a joint committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat.

A joint central committee and joint congresses endeavoured to secure some co-ordination.

Negotiation: contractually binding conclusions are worked out in joint negotiation committees .

A joint border committee was to be established between the two countries to deal with any such incidents.

local

Such divisions of opinion were causing difficulties in the functioning of local medical committees .

He was also chairman of the local Conservative Party committee .

This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.

The local committees varied greatly in their composition and operating procedures, some of which were highly unusual.

All subjects gave informed consent for the study, which was approved by the local ethical committee .

These local committees were supplemented in the autumn of 1921 by the newly formed peasant Committees of Self-Help.

The latter procedure was in agreement with the recommendations from the local ethical committee .

Views were also obtained from local family doctor committees and from medical advisers to the Mental Welfare Commission.

national

In 1919-20 he served on a number of national committees concerned with the mining industry and ore supplies.

Arnold said that the national committee occasionally dealt with Anne Stock, head of the White House social office.

On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform.

No one believes that money given to the two campaigns' national committees was not intended to influence a federal election.

The county's chief constable, who heads a national committee on crime, says he hasn't the resources to cope.

In one situation, he wanted to be appointed to a national traveling committee .

The national executive committee agreed the following day that an electoral conference would be held on July 18.

Predictably, members of the Democratic hierarchy who gathered for the national committee meeting favored the status quo.

parliamentary

Civil servants give evidence to parliamentary committees and other official inquiries.

In June, a Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to its challenge.

The New Minister of finance, Sigbjoern Johnsen, had been deputy leader of the parliamentary finance committee since 1986.

If the parliamentary committee wishes to see Britain's racing transformed, it should forget about tampering with the levy rate.

He continued to serve on increasing numbers of parliamentary committees until his death 26 March 1652.

The panel's report, which has been submitted to a parliamentary committee , set out two lines of argument.

It has already been considered by the relevant Parliamentary committees and this debate will complete its first reading.

Yet the new balance began to be questioned almost as soon as it was put in place, this time by Parliamentary committees .

political

Within government, power had passed from charismatic political leaders to committee men.

As governor, Weld has shunned political action committee contributions.

The bill would also ban political action committee contributions to federal candidates.

His political action committee chipped in to numerous campaigns.

That bill, which died, also would have capped the amount political action committees could contribute to candidates.

select

Over half the backbenchers are regularly involved with select committee activity.

In 1986 the Prime Minister listed 150 select committee policy recommendations accepted by the government that year.

She said that Mr Heseltine had told the industry select committee that he would consider legislation to change the market.

A total of 93 select committee meetings were televised.

The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.

It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee .

Since then he has been an active backbencher, chairing the influential Treasury and Civil Service select committee .

Poor attendance in the Chamber had been criticised, but the televised coverage of select committees had been welcomed.

special

They are rather areas where a special planning regime exists and which have their own special planning committee .

Thus far, no decision has ever reached that level, and only two have ever gone up to the special committee .

Buckingham Palace officials were at Drummond House on 14 May to inspect the route proposed by the special committee .

Half the bills introduced each year are written by lobbyists, who often serve alongside elected lawmakers on special legislative committees .

Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates receive the benefit of advice from special committees of old University men.

A special committee named the Juddmonte Farms operation leading breeder.

On 25 February, the special Cabinet committee turned its attention to the reform of supplementary benefit but the meeting was inconclusive.

The cash will be decided on by a special committee from the Department of National Heritage.

steering

A steering committee of students, artists, curatorial staff and lecturers was set up.

Lawrence apparently has no wish to be verified by rock's steering committee .

The steering committee on refugees resumes in Geneva next month.

The Club is run by a steering committee elected from the membership.

So far the steering committee comprises representatives from its lead bank, Barclays, and four big lenders.

How about a steering committee meeting every three months or so?

The steering committee did however recommend the appointment of a Prime Minister, and provision for greater freedom of information.

■ NOUN

action

They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.

Members of political action committees might have hoped for a little breather before being hit up again for money.

Students' action committees began coordinating demonstrations and contacting workers' organizations.

Political action committees can be a huge problem for challengers in federal races.

A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained.

The Clinton campaign does not accept money from political action committees through which teacher unions funnel their contributions.

An action committee over 20 strong was elected at the meeting to decide further action.

It all started with a public meeting in 1989 when an action committee was set up.

chairman

They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting.

Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who is platform committee chairman , is still hoping to defuse the explosive issue.

Labour committee chairman Jim Skinner said he would be concerned by any further erosion of rail services.

That trait was underscored by a letter he wrote Tuesday to the ethics committee chairman , Rep.

In the same period the power of standing committee chairmen was further eroded by the institutionalization and proliferation of sub-committees.

House Republican Conference rules prohibit a censured lawmaker from being a committee chairman or holding a leadership post.

If committee chairmen have a monopoly over such resources their colleagues will be badly disadvantaged.

In a letter to committee chairman Sen.

education

Principals of colleges, their governors and education committee members and officers were invited.

On regional education committees the teaching unions have had their voting rights removed.

The education committee of the Ohio legislature has been considering a bill requiring evidence against evolution to also be taught.

The association says Traquair and Longformacus primaries will be next on the education committee agenda.

The councillors ratified the decision taken earlier by the education committee .

The Chair of the Education committee was often a key figure whose ear it might be useful to have.

Her next appointment in 1942 was as the first educational psychologist employed by the education committee of the city of Edinburgh.

In 1890 she was elected to the school board at Bradford and the West Riding education committee .

ethics

I take issue with the view that district ethics committees are superfluous once central committees have approved a multicentre project.

The tug-of-war comes at a time when the ethics committee is facing an exceptional workload.

The study was approved by the ethics committee of our university and informed consent was obtained from all patients and healthy volunteers.

Seven days later, Gingrich admitted violating House rules by, among other things, submitting false information to the ethics committee .

The study was approved by the Western Infirmary ethics committee and each patient gave informed written consent.

Gingrich did not disclose that in meeting with an ethics committee lawyer.

Informed consent was obtained from each person and the protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Leiden University Hospital.

The Republicans on the ethics committee knew what Cole had found in his investigation.

meeting

Many people want to help but just don't want to be bogged down with wasteful committee meetings every week for years.

Jack Kemp, and held some committee meetings .

Staff did not attend committee meetings unless this was requested by members.

The public have a statutory right to be present during council meetings and committee meetings.

Gedge largely preferred late night debates to attending stolid committee meetings in upstairs pub rooms or pushing by-election leaflets through doors.

All of them contained agendas and minutes of council committee meetings .

And Mr Major happily used freelance fixers like Mr Wakeham to defuse potentially difficult committee meetings .

The deliberations of formal committee meetings are always recorded in the form of Minutes.

member

It was also confirmed that Phil Field, as Membership Secretary, is a committee member .

I had to think about a different management committee member when I did each one.

They wanted induction and training for all management committee members and for the management committee to take a lead in fund raising.

He listed the various committee members and what he thought of them.

The committee members are appointed by the Committee of Selection.

I had to describe my relationship with each of the committee members .

The December through February sessions had gone so well that committee members believed they should conduct similar training throughout the division.

planning

These are just two reasons why an environmental impact survey is needed but the planning committee have not considered this.

He will also tell the island's planning committee that it should go forward to public consultation and a public meeting.

A report to Midlothian's planning committee recommends the proposal gets the go ahead.

They are rather areas where a special planning regime exists and which have their own special planning committee .

The grant was one of several agreed by councillors on the economic development and planning committee .

Such people were adept at the manipulation of planning committees , the lobbying of local government officers.

The application will be considered by a planning committee .

review

The plan will be considered by the Government's energy review committee .

Most universities have some review committee that requires a statement from the researcher that adequate protection will be guaranteed for all respondents.

The conclusions of Alec's review committee , however, were not at all helpful to Ted.

It may be distributed to members of the review committee .

The cabinet was informed as late as possible; even ministers on the poll-tax review committee were not told what was coming.

There were 240 cases that went before the undergraduate administrative review committee .

Also, a citizens' programme review committee should be established.

selection

What would be gained by being a bother to the selection committee of a twenty-two carat Tory seat?

Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.

Her sisters under the skin would man the constituency selection committees .

In the cases that Keenan complained about, Huckelberry admits changing the decision of the selection committee , but denies any wrongdoing.

McIntosh will also join the six-man selection committee .

The nine-man selection committee went for Ray Allen by a 6-3 margin.

On Wednesday after the selection committee meeting, I realized I'd left my fountain pen in here.

You see, Gonzaga did finish stronger, which is a factor the selection committee takes into account.

senate

A parallel Senate committee also intends to look into Mr Rodham's role.

At a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, however, the tire-burning effort drew protests.

Mr White himself is expected to appear before the Senate committee on Thursday.

A Senate committee under the leadership of Sen.

In reviewing this decision, the Senate shall be advised by the appropriate Senate committee .

She had been called previously, she said, by investigators for the House and Senate committees probing Democratic fund-raising.

A Senate committee approved legislation last week to require storage of the spent fuel in an interim facility in Nevada.

The study covered soft money gifts to the national, House and Senate committees of each major party.

standing

Elections happen every year, yes, but it's always the standing committee that gets elected.

A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort.

Operating as a standing committee of Council, its membership comprises: Two members nominated from each of the 22 district societies.

Yao Yilin and Song Ping, both hardline conservatives, were removed from the standing committee .

The majority of members serving on the Association's various standing committees are elected from the representatives on the council.

Hu had served on the politburo standing committee and secretariat.

A detailed clause by clause analysis of the Bill by a standing committee of between 1-50 M.P.s.

■ VERB

appoint

Tim Wallace is appointed to the committee and is to be responsible for the funds allotted to the preservation group.

He had made up his mind to appoint a nonpolitical committee of outside experts and prominent private citizens.

This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.

Instead, he would appoint a committee of foremen, operators, and managers to study the problem and recommend a solution.

The society appointed a medical committee , which outlined the essential problems in a series of simple questions.

Janet led us through the victories at the polls, then appointed a committee that drafted the Florida Educational Equity Act.

In 1640, parliament, with the agreement of Charles I, appointed a committee to investigate complaints against clergy.

Both cities appointed committees to study the charter concept.

chair

Meeks did chair the committee to study the parking problem, which ultimately recommended that parking assignments be eliminated.

He chaired the committee that recommended it to Clinton in 1998.

After his retirement, he chaired the committee on currency and foreign exchanges and served on the cabinet committee on indemnity.

Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture, agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.

Instead they have taken it in turns to chair the committees .

Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.

establish

Companies or governments might establish committees with powers to investigate, recommend or even to make decisions.

One of the changes was establishing a partnership committee to evaluate whether to go public.

The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections.

They established a committee to meet with DeGrazia to try to find solutions both sides could support.

The meeting had ended in agreement to establish a permanent liaison committee .

Already, one top Republican fund-raiser, Ohio attorney Thomas Tripp, has established such a committee .

Some governing bodies have been sensitive to this danger and have established committees and structures involving teachers other than the teacher-governors.

And by establishing coordination committees operating within the team concept, he brought about far better mutual support.

form

In June 1788 Clarkson proposed that the London committee promote widespread agitation through forming local committees.

Killian said he will form an oversight committee to watch the effect of the legislation and change it if problems arise.

They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.

The company said it formed a committee to begin searching for a replacement for Edwards.

Quackenbush, 43, has not announced a reelection bid but has formed a campaign committee .

In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard.

Simultaneously, they chose block committees , established communal kitchens, organized working parties, and formed a camp welfare committee.

meet

All subject committees meet on the same day.

Gershman's suggestion that the committee of the whole meet at 5 p.m. is a good one, too.

I trust you will bring the above to the attention of your committee when they meet to consider the application.

Katherine having lunch with him after the management committee meeting last Wednesday.

Councillors on Sefton's environment committee will meet tonight to discuss the issue.

We were going into an executive committee meeting for the firm at the Waldorf.

The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight.

serve

Should not that proviso apply to anybody serving on any committee ?

He had served on numerous civic committees and dabbled on the fringes of politics, mainly at the name-dropping level.

He also served on numerous other committees and commissions.

To be successful, a former member must have served on an influential committee and acquired expertise on controversial issues.

Often this involves serving on college committees .

In 1917-18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction, where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb.

In order to install the lopsided majorities, more Republicans have to serve on multiple committees .

set

He says his next move is to set up an action committee to step up his campaign.

The Democrats set up a committee to fire them and bring in Democrats, and Daley took part in the gleeful task.

The Minister's response was to set up a coordinating committee of the nationalised fuel industry chairmen.

One of its first actions on taking power in March was to set up a committee to review the project.

Bill Rodgers having set up this committee , it now fell to me to decide what to do with their report.

Having spent the past two or three years setting up their committees , they are reluctant to unravel them now.

They took the NoS way out by setting up another committee - the product development committee - to keep Sutton in line.

Some companies, such as Universal, have set up lyric committees to prevent the release of offensive material.

steer

He was also on the steering committee for the Hillsborough disaster cases.

Finally, a steering committee was formed late last year and, within two months, the organizational meeting was held.

The Foreign Office authorised the association to establish a steering committee under my chairmanship.

Some might decide to elect a special institutions representative, a steering committee , and a hospitality committee.

Together, these industries formed a large and active steering committee .

A systemwide school-to-career steering committee reflects the power structure in Boston.

In the last four months, Hernandez developed a steering committee of parents, students, non-profit groups and businesses.

tell

Lord James told the committee an extension of hours had been under consideration since the 1970s.

Watkins told the committee he believed his reprimand was unjustified.

She said that Mr Heseltine had told the industry select committee that he would consider legislation to change the market.

Supple told committee members that the university is currently searching for a new athletic director.

Fred Taylor would tell a congressional committee about him forty years later.

Baer later told the committee he would help Beer in her search.

He must catch a flight to Washington to tell a committee that the cities need more money.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

action group/committee etc

A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained.

Members of a local action group say this isn't good enough.

Members of political action committees might have hoped for a little breather before being hit up again for money.

Outhwaite names' champion Peter Nutting is to head a new working party to co-ordinate syndicate action groups.

Political action committees, which are more active in congressional races, represented only 2 percent of the presidential campaign coffers.

They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.

Traffickers have become a political action committee.

Under the Apostolic listing are prison visiting, family contacts, catechism classes, Catholic action groups and Sunday schools.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A welcoming committee greets newcomers to the Parkside neighborhood.

Bill Dean has been elected chairman of the committee .

She's been on the Church committee for 20 years.

The finance committee has decided to raise membership fees for next season.

the Senate Armed Forces Committee

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All high cost drugs are already rationed in hospitals through drug and therapeutics committees and clinical pharmacy services.

In addition, procedural reforms in the 1970s transformed the relationship between chairmen and their committee colleagues.

In the House, for example, there were 634 persons on committee staffs in 1967.

Step forward Tom Pendry, who chairs the Labour Party sports committee .

The committee includes people such as Elliott Shurgin, general manager of index services.

The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.

They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting.

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