select committee
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]select committee (plural select committees)
- A committee made up of a number of parliamentary or legislative members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 48:
- In 1864 a Joint Select Committee of both houses of Parliament came out in favour of an 'inner circuit', a loop joining the main line termini in the north with those that were emerging to the south in the early 1860s: Victoria, Charing Cross and Cannon Street.
- 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
- It now goes to the Lords Committee stage - a select committee will be appointed to consider 35 petitions once the new Parliamentary session gets underway.
Translations
[edit]committee appointed to deal with matters beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee
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References
[edit]- “select committee” (US) / “select committee” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “select committee”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “select committee”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “select committee”, in Collins English Dictionary.