committee

1. 1.

   a special group delegated to consider some matter

   “a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours”

   Synonymscommission

   Broaderadministrative unit

   NarrowerEconomic and Social Council commissionblue ribbon commissionboardelection commissionfairness commissionplanning commissionconservancyselect committeesubcommitteestanding committee
2. 2.

   a self-constituted organization to promote something

   Synonymscitizens committee

   Broadernongovernmental organization

   Narrowervigilance committeewelcoming committee

Other forms of committee

plural

committees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about committee

What does committee mean?

committee means "a special group delegated to consider some matter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in committee?

committee has 3 syllables: com-mit-tee. The stress falls on "mit". In IPA it is /kəˈmɪti/.

What is another word for committee?

Close synonyms include commission, citizens committee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is committee a common word?

committee is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with committee?

1 word rhymes with committee. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.