ways and means committee

1. 1.

   a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue

   Broaderstanding committee

Questions about ways and means committee

What does ways and means committee mean?

ways and means committee means "a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue".

Is ways and means committee a common word?

ways and means 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.