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STANDING COMMITTEE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A permanent committee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("standing committee" is a kind of...):
commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "standing committee"):
Ways and Means Committee (a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue)
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