Definition of Committeeman

1. Noun. A man who is a member of committee.

Generic synonyms: Committee Member

Definition of Committeeman

1. n. A member of a committee.

Definition of Committeeman

1. Noun. A man who is a member of a committee ¹

2. Noun. (American English) A man who is a local leader of a political party ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Committeeman

1. [n COMMITTEEMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Committeeman

commits
commits suicide
committable
committal
committal service
committal to memory
committal to writing
committals
committed suicide
committedly
committedness
committee
committee meeting
committee member
committeeman (current term)
committeemen
committeepeople
committeeperson
committeepersons
committees
committeewoman
committeewomen
committer
committers
committest
committeth
committible
committing
committing suicide

Literary usage of Committeeman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"... Elks. He has served as ward committeeman a number of years; was delegate to the state conventions of 1884-89, and was an alternate delegate to the ..."

2. Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey by Cornelius Burnham Harvey (1900)
"PATRICK SULLIVAN, Chief of Police and Township committeeman of North Bergen, Hudson County, ... He has been Township committeeman since the spring of 1898, ..."

3. A History of Ontario County, New York and Its People by Charles F. Milliken (1911)
"He has also served as delegate to the state and county Democratic conventions, and has served as county committeeman from Geneva, While serving on the board ..."

4. Who's who on the Pacific Coast: A Biographical Compilation of Notable Living by Franklin Harper (1913)
"National committeeman, since 1908. Atty. for Charles L. Fair in the Fair will contest, which involved millions. Atty. for Pacific Mail Steamship Co. ; Chief ..."

5. Queen's Bench Reports by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis (1852)
"COMMITTEE. him to supply them on their credit, although the individual committeeman has not specifically given such authority, and though the tradesman may ..."

6. Manual of Election Laws of Illinois: With Full Notes and Interpretations by John Lewson (1922)
"... of each candidate, committeeman and delegate nominated or elected as shown by the returns, and in case of delegates to a national nominating convention, ..."

7. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"A committeeman by merely allowing his name to appear in that character in the ordinary form of prospectus issued by Railway Companies incurs no liability to ..."

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