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- pronunciation:
- k
mI
ti
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
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a group of persons chosen or volunteering themselves to work together to solve a problem or resolve a particular issue.
Members of the neighborhood formed a committee to raise funds for a basketball court.A Senate committee will investigate the charges of wrongdoing on the part of these business leaders.He is no longer on the committee as he has too many other commitments.
- similar words:
- board, council, staff
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cabinet, commission, tribunal |
adjective + (n.)committee
administrative,
advisory,
armed,
bipartisan,
congressional,
coordinating,
departmental,
editorial,
exploratory,
inaugural,
investigating,
investigative,
joint,
judicial,
legislative,
organizing,
parliamentary,
political,
select,
special,
technical,
welcoming
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verb + (n.)committee
appoint, chair, convene, establish, form, head, nominate, organize, serve, steer, testify
(n.)committee
+ verb
advise, approve, compose, comprise, conclude, coordinate, debate, draft, investigate, oversee, recommend, request, review, select, staff, submit, vote
noun + (n.)committee
action,
admission,
appropriation,
audit,
banking,
bid,
board,
campaign,
chairman,
co-chair,
compensation,
conference,
counsel,
credentials,
creditor,
curriculum,
drafting,
ethics,
evaluation,
executive,
faculty,
finance,
formation,
fund-raising,
intelligence,
judiciary,
negotiating,
nominating,
oversight,
planning,
platform,
ranking,
re-election,
review,
screening,
search,
selection,
standing,
steering,
tenure,
testimony
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The word committee
contains the following parts:
mit, mis1, mitt, miss, -mise
Latin
root
that means send, let go
  Example words:
admissible, admission, admit, admittance, admittedly, commissar, commissariat, commissary, commission, commissioner, commit, commitment, committed, committee, compromise, demise, dismiss, dismissal, emissary, emission, emit, impermissible, intermit, intromit, irremissible, manumit, missal, missile, missilery, mission, missionary, missive, omit, permissible, permission, permissive, permit, premise, pretermit, promise, promisee, promising, promisor, promissory note, recommit, remiss, remissible, remission, remit, remittal, remittance, remittent, submission, submissive, submit, surmise, transmissible, transmission, transmit, transmitter, uncommitted, uncompromising, unremitting
-ee
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means person who undergoes or receives
Example words:
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