VIGILANCE COMMITTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vigilance committee mean? 

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

1. a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIGILANCE COMMITTEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

citizens committee; committee (a self-constituted organization to promote something)