SELECT COMMITTEE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("select committee" is a kind of...):

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)