Committee vs Administration - What's the difference?
committee | administration |
a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols
(archaic) a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.
(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
(countable) A body that administers; the executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
(uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
(uncountable, business) Management.
(uncountable, legal, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
As nouns the difference between committee and administration
is that committee is a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols while administration is the act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.committee
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Alternative forms
* (contraction)Noun
(wikipedia committee) (en noun)Derived terms
* committeeman * committeeperson * committeewoman * subcommitteeadministration
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(wikipedia administration)Noun
(en-noun)- Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.
- ''the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
- The company went into voluntary administration last week.