A group of experts responsible for reviewing scientific conference submissions and drafting the conference program.

(US, historical) A group of private citizens who administered justice where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate.

plural of executive committee

(management) A subcommittee of a board authorized to make some decisions on behalf of the entire board.

(informal, medicine) Synonym of God squad (“ethics committee”)

plural of God committee

plural of riding committee

(historical) A committee of ministers sent by the General Assembly to carry out an ordination or induction, where the local presbytery refused to act, under the Moderate domination in 18th-century Scotland.

A meeting of a deliberative assembly according to modified procedural rules based on those of a committee.

plural of committee of the whole