Committee vs Division - What's the difference?
committee | division |
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 or process of dividing anything.
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
A section of a large company.
(biology, taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio ) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants]] or [[fungus, fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
(UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
As nouns the difference between committee and division
is that committee is a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols while division is division.committee
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Alternative forms
* (contraction)Noun
(wikipedia committee) (en noun)Derived terms
* committeeman * committeeperson * committeewoman * subcommitteedivision
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(wikipedia division)Noun
- I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
- Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
