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Committee of Correspondence
noun American History.
1.
an intercolonial committee organized 1772 by Samuel Adams in Massachusetts to keep colonists informed of British anticolonial actions and to plan colonial resistance or countermeasures.
2.
(sometimes lowercase) any of various similar organizations formed for the same purpose during the late colonial period.
Also called Correspondence Committee.
Origin:
1760–70, Americanism
1760–70, Americanism
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Committee of Correspondence
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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