committees
- 1Plural of committee.
The board delegated the review to three separate committees.
Funding decisions passed through several committees before final approval.
Note
A regular plural in -s that counts whole bodies rather than their members: three committees means three separate groups, each with its own people, and it takes a plural verb (the committees meet monthly). The same form also covers the archaic sense of a guardian placed in charge of someone unable to look after themselves. In Pakistan it also serves as a spelling of kameti.
committees is a form of committee
committee, noun: A group of one or more people brought together to accomplish a specific purpose, usually following formal rules. Full entry
- Forms
- committeecommittees plural
- Spelling
- committee → committees: add -s
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