ethics committee

1. 1.

   a committee appointed to consider ethical issues

   Synonymsethics panel

   Broadercommittee

Questions about ethics committee

What does ethics committee mean?

ethics committee means "a committee appointed to consider ethical issues".

What is another word for ethics committee?

Close synonyms include ethics panel. 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 ethics committee a common word?

ethics committee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.