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Definition of Political action committee
1. Noun. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Political Action Committee
Literary usage of Political action committee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"(d) PLATFORM AND POLITICAL ACTION [Committee on political organization:] Your
committee to whom was referred the subject of National Labor Organization, ..."
2. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Channell used tion Fund (ACT-SEF) as a state political action committee to take
advantage of state laws allowing corporate contributions to such entities. ..."