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WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ways and Means Committee mean? 

WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE (noun)
  The noun WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Ways and Means Committee" is a kind of...):

standing committee (a permanent committee)


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