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Definition of Committees
1. committee [n] - See also: committee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Committees
Literary usage of Committees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"These bureaux served .some of the purposes of committees in the British ...
Several of these committees encroached upon the ministerial departments; ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of war risk insurance. Division of military and naval insurance, United States (1917)
"LOCAL committees. An important factor in the department's work is the chain of
local committees.4 The personnel of these committees is drawn, almost without ..."
3. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"Annual clerks of committees are authorized by a resolution reported by the
Committee on Accounts and agreed to by the House (IV, 4534), and session clerks ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The suggested plan of appointment of the administration committees primarily by
the board or council, the president filling the vacancies that occur each ..."
5. The Constitutional Convention: Its History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding by John Alexander Jameson (1867)
"Tallmadge, it was urged, that if all the reports were ac- accompanied by statements
of the reasons which induced the committees to adopt them, ..."
6. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"The motion to establish a system of intercolonial committees of correspondence
was made by the youthful Dabney Carr, and eloquently supported by Patrick ..."
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