select committee
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "His spokesperson did not deny that Starmer was endorsing the idea of a select committee examining Royal Lodge. “It’s important that there’s proper scrutiny when the scrutiny is needed,” they said."