committee

English

Alternative forms

• cttee (contraction)
• cmte (contraction)

Etymology

From commit +‎ -ee, or else revival of Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.

Pronunciation

group of persons

• enPR: kə-mĭtʹē, IPA^(key): [kəˈmɪt.i]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪti

person in charge of another

• (UK) IPA^(key): [kɒmɪˈtiː]

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -iː
• (US) enPR: käm-ĭ-tēʹ, IPA^(key): [kɑmɪˈtiː]

Noun

committee (plural committees)

1. A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.

   My uncle is on the committee.

2. (archaic) A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themself.

Hypernyms

• group

Hyponyms

• program committee

Coordinate terms

• council
• squad
• task force
• team
• workgroup
• working group

Derived terms

• a camel is a horse designed by a committee
• by committee
• central committee
• clearness committee
• committeeing
• committeeman
• committee of the whole
• committeepeople
• committeeperson
• committeeship
• committeewoman
• executive committee
• exploratory committee
• God committee
• itty bitty titty committee
• joint committee
• multicommittee
• riding committee
• rubber stamp committee
• select committee
• standing committee
• steering committee
• subcommittee
• tissue committee
• vigilance committee

 

Descendants

• → French: comité (see there for further descendants)

Translations

group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose

• Afrikaans: komitee
• Albanian: komitet (sq) m
• Arabic: لَجْنَة‎ f (lajna)
• Armenian: հանձնախումբ (hy) (hanjnaxumb), կոմիտե (hy) (komite), հանձնաժողով (hy) (hanjnažołov)
• Azerbaijani: komitə, komissiya
• Belarusian: камітэ́т m (kamitét), камі́сія f (kamísija)
• Bulgarian: комите́т (bg) m (komitét), коми́сия (bg) f (komísija)
• Burmese: ကော်မတီ (my) (kauma.ti)
• Catalan: comitè (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 委員會／委员会 (wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

  Mandarin: 委員會／委员会 (zh) (wěiyuánhuì)

  Min Nan: 委員會／委员会 (úi-oân-hōe)

• Czech: výbor (cs) m, komise (cs) f
• Danish: komité c, komite c
• Dutch: comité (nl) n, commissie (nl) f
• Estonian: komitee, komisjon (et)
• Faroese: nevnd f
• Finnish: komitea (fi), valiokunta (fi), toimikunta (fi)
• French: comité (fr) m, commission (fr) f
• Friulian: comitât m
• Georgian: კომიტეტი (ḳomiṭeṭi), კომისია (ḳomisia)
• German: Komitee (de) n, Ausschuß (de) m, Kommission (de) f
• Hebrew: וְעָדָה‎ f (v'adá)
• Hindi: समिति (hi) f (samiti), कमेटी (hi) f (kameṭī)
• Hungarian: bizottság (hu)
• Icelandic: nefnd (is) f
• Indonesian: komite (id), panitia (id), panitera (id)
• Ingrian: komitetta
• Interlingua: committee
• Irish: coiste m
• Italian: comitato (it) m, commissione (it) f
• Japanese: 委員会 (ja) (いいんかい, iinkai)
• Kazakh: комитет (komitet), комиссия (komissiä)
• Khmer: គណៈកម្មាធិការ (km) (kĕəʼnaʼ kammaathikaa), គណៈកម្មការ (km) (kĕəʼnaʼ kamkɑɑ)
• Korean: 위원회(委員會) (ko) (wiwonhoe)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: komîte (ku) f, deste (ku) f, lijne (ku) f, kom (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: комитет (ky) (komitet), комиссия (komissiya)
• Lao: ຄະນະກຳມະການ (lo) (kha na kam ma kān)
• Latin: consilium n
• Latvian: komiteja f, komisija f
• Lithuanian: komitetas (lt) m, komisija f
• Lombard: comitad (lmo) m (comità, comitat)
• Macedonian: комите́т m (komitét)
• Malay: jawatankuasa (ms), panitia, komite, komiti, lajnah
• Malayalam: സമിതി (ml) (samiti), കമ്മിറ്റി (ml) (kammiṟṟi)
• Malaysian Sign Language: jawatankuasa
• Maori: komiti
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хороо (mn) (xoroo), комисс (mn) (komiss)

• Norman: conmité m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: komité (no) m, komite (no) m

  Nynorsk: komité m, komite m

• Pashto: کمیټه‎ f (komiṭa)
• Persian: کمیته‎ (fa) (komite)
• Piedmontese: comità m
• Polish: komitet (pl) m, komisja (pl) f
• Portuguese: comité (pt) m, comitê (pt) m, comissão (pt) f
• Romanian: comitet (ro) n, comisie (ro) f
• Russian: комите́т (ru) m (komitét), коми́ссия (ru) f (komíssija)
• Scottish Gaelic: comataidh f
• Serbo-Croatian: odbor (sh) n

  Cyrillic: комѝте̄т m, о̀дбор m, ча̑снӣштво n

  Roman: komìtēt (sh) m, òdbor (sh) m, čȃsnīštvo (sh) n

• Slovak: výbor m, komisia f
• Slovene: komite m, odbor m
• Spanish: comité (es) m, comisión (es) f
• Swahili: kamati (sw)
• Swedish: nämnd (sv) c, kommitté (sv) c, utskott (sv) n
• Tajik: комитет (komitet), комиссия (tg) (komissiya)
• Thai: คณะกรรมการ (ká-ná-gam-má-gaan)
• Turkish: kurul (tr), komite (tr)
• Turkmen: komitet, komissiýa
• Ukrainian: коміте́т (uk) m (komitét), комі́сія (uk) f (komísija)
• Urdu: کمیٹی‎ f (kameṭī)
• Uyghur: كومىتېت‎ (komitët)
• Uzbek: komitet (uz), komissiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: uỷ ban (vi) (委班)
• Volapük: komitetanef (vo)
• Yiddish: קאָמיטעט‎ m (komitet)

guardian — see guardian

Further reading

• committee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia