Click to Hear how to Say "Committee" in Chinese |
委员会 |
Pronunciation : Com*mit"tee
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. OF. comit? company, and LL. comitatus jurisdiction or territory of a count, county, assize, army. The word was apparently influenced by the verb commit, but not directly formed from it. Cf. County.]
Definition : Defn: One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole [house], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of different rules from those governing the general legislative proceedings. The committee of the whole has its own chairman, and reports its action in the form of recommendations. -- Standing committee. See under Standing.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Com`mit*tee"
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [From Commit, v. t.] (Law)
Definition : Defn: One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
<< Last Word in Lesson This is the first lesson. | Current Word in Lesson Committee | Next Word in Lesson >> |
Your Overall Progress
|
No comments so far. You can be the first!