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Committee vs Coalition - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between committee and coalition

is that committee is a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols while coalition is a temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

committee

English

Alternative forms

* (contraction)

Noun

(wikipedia committee) (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * committeeman * committeeperson * committeewoman * subcommittee

    coalition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
    • The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
  • * 2013 May 23, , " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
    • At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

    Derived terms

    * coalition of the willing * coalitional * coalitionary * coalitioner * coalitionism * coalitionist * First Coalition * Second Coalition * Third Coalition * Fourth Coalition

    External links

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