select committee

1. 1.

   a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose

   Broadercommittee

   United Kingdom

Questions about select committee

What does select committee mean?

select committee means "a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose".

Is select committee a common word?

select 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.