word-vault/dist/data/cards/co/committee.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "committee",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a group of people who are chosen, usually by a larger group, to make decisions or to deal with a particular subject",
            "sensetop": "on a committeebefore a committeein committeecommittee of somebody/somethingcommittee to do somethingcommittee on something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an **executive/advisory/organizing committee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **parliamentary/congressional/Senate committee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee has/have decided to move the event to later in the year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee unanimously approved the plan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **appoint/establish/form a committee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **chair/head a committee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's on the **planning committee**.",
                    "contextForm": "on a committee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has **served on** numerous **committees**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have been invited to **sit on the committee**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He will be called to give evidence before the committee.",
                    "contextForm": "before a committee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bill was still in committee *(= being considered by a committee)* in early December.",
                    "contextForm": "in committee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a committee of inquiry",
                    "contextForm": "committee of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a committee of MPs/experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A special committee to investigate the possible impeachment of the governor meets later today.",
                    "contextForm": "committee to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the US House of Representatives' committee on foreign affairs",
                    "contextForm": "committee on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **committee member/chairman**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **committee meeting/report**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **chairman/chair of a committee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **member/meeting of a committee**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The player was fined by the disciplinary committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I talked to some of the people on the committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lord Stansfield will chair the committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mr Taylor will chair the board's audit committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She serves on several committees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee meets every Thursday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a committee on the safety of medicines"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Economic reform is likely to dominate today's meeting of the party's central committee."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life", "People in society"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["central", "joint", "standing"],
                "verb + committee": ["create", "establish", "form"],
                "committee + verb": ["meet", "approve", "conclude"],
                "committee + noun": ["member", "chair", "chairman"],
                "preposition": ["on a/​the committee", "committee on", "committee of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmɪti/",
                "audio": "co/committee/committee__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmɪti/",
                "audio": "co/committee/committee__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the general sense ‘person to whom something has been entrusted’): from commit + -ee."
}