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select committee

select committee noun: a committee made up of a number of parliamentary or legislative members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee.

Noun

select committee (plural select committees)

  1. A committee made up of a number of parliamentary or legislative members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee.
    • In 1864 a Joint Select Committee of both houses of Parliament came out in favour of an 'inner circuit', a loop joining the main line termini in the north with those that were emerging to the south in the early 1860s: Victoria, Charing Cross and Cannon Street.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 48
    • It now goes to the Lords Committee stage - a select committee will be appointed to consider 35 petitions once the new Parliamentary session gets underway.2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9

select committee meaning in Tamil, Malay and Vietnamese

select committee in Tamil

committee appointed to deal with matters beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee
பொறுக்குக் குழு poṟukkuk kuḻu

select committee in Malay

committee appointed to deal with matters beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee
jawatankuasa pilihan

select committee in Vietnamese

committee appointed to deal with matters beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee
ủy ban chọn lọc, ủy ban đặc tuyển

Forms of select committee

pluralselect committees

Questions about select committee

What does select committee mean?
Select committee means a committee made up of a number of parliamentary or legislative members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee.
What is select committee in Tamil?
Select committee in Tamil is பொறுக்குக் குழு (poṟukkuk kuḻu). See Select committee meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is select committee?
Select committee is a noun.
What is the plural of select committee?
The plural of select committee is select committees.

Words near select committee in the dictionary

  1. sele
  2. Selecao
  3. select
  4. select agent
  5. select agents
  6. select committee
  7. select committees
  8. select meeting
  9. select meetings
  10. select out
  11. select vestries

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