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Committeeman

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  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.

• Committee-of-one

  noun 1. an individual person designated to function alone as a committee.

• Committee of the whole house

  noun 1. (in Britain) an informal sitting of the House of Commons to discuss and amend a bill

• Committee-of-the-whole

  noun 1. the entire membership of a legislative body, sitting in a deliberative rather than a legislative capacity, for informal debate and preliminary consideration of matters awaiting legislative action.

• Committeeperson

  [kuh-mit-ee-pur-suh n] /kəˈmɪt iˌpɜr sən/ noun 1. a member of a committee. 2. the leader of a political ward or precinct.

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