committeeing

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English

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Etymology

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From committee +‎ -ing.

Noun

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committeeing (uncountable)

  1. Discussing in a committee.
    • 1992, John C. Gordon, Agriculture and the Undergraduate[1]:
      I argue that no amount of curriculum tinkering and academic committeeing will cause us to rise from these doldrums and to the environmental occasion.
    • 2005, Richard Robinson, Why the toast always lands butter side down: the scientific reasons everything goes wrong[2]:
      There is no gene for committeeing. Committee procedure is a meme which gets handed down the generations.