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noun
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a person or group of persons elected or appointed to perform some service or function, as to investigate, report on, or act upon a particular matter.
3.
Law. an individual to whom the care of a person or a person's estate is committed.
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Committee
is always a great word to know.
So is fiction. Does it mean:
| the formal statement by a judge or court of the reasoning and the principles of law used in reaching a decision of a case |
| an allegation that a fact exists that is known not to exist, made by authority of law to bring a case within the operation of a rule of law |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a group of people chosen or appointed to perform a specified service or function |
| 2. | See also receiver (formerly) a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his property was entrusted by a court |
| [C15: from committen to entrust + | |
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committee
1621, revival of Anglo-Fr. commite, pp. of commettre "to commit," from L. committere (see commit). Orig. "person to whom something is committed" (1495), broadened 17c. to mean a body of such people.
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