SELECT COMMITTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does select committee mean? 

• SELECT COMMITTEE (noun)
  The noun SELECT COMMITTEE has 1 sense:

1. a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose

  Familiarity information: SELECT COMMITTEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELECT COMMITTEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("select committee" is a kind of...):

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

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)