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select committees

select committees is the plural of select committee.

Meaning of select 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

Questions about select committees

What is select committees the plural of?
Select committees is the plural of select committee.

Words near select committees in the dictionary

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

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