committee
pronunciation
How to pronounce committee in British English:
UK [kəˈmɪti]
How to pronounce committee in American English:
US [kəˈmɪti]
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- Noun:
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- a self-constituted organization to promote something
Word Origin
- committee
- committee: [15] Committee was formed from the verb commit by adding the suffix -ee. Following the pattern of all such formations, it originally meant ‘person to whom something is committed’; it was not until the 17th century that the sense ‘body of people delegated to perform a particular function’ developed.
- committee (n.)
- 1620s, from commit + -ee, or else a revival of Anglo-French commite, past participle of commettre "to commit," from Latin committere "to unite, connect" (see commit). Originally "person to whom something is committed" (late 15c.); from 17c. in reference to a body of such people.
Synonym
Example
- 1. The full finance committee will consider it next week .
- 2. Moen testified before the committee .
- 3. Mr augustine 's committee offers several possibilities .
- 4. The king 's human-rights committee looks sound .
- 5. That suggests the committee is evenly split .