BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue ribbon committee mean? 

• BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE (noun)
  The noun BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE 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 COMMITTEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE (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 committee" is a kind of...):

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)