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BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blue ribbon commission mean?
• BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION (noun)
The noun BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION has 1 sense:
1. an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
Familiarity information: BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
blue ribbon commission; blue ribbon committee
Hypernyms ("blue ribbon commission" is a kind of...):
commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)
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