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Committee vs Parliament - What's the difference?

committee | parliament |

As a noun committee

is a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.

As a proper noun parliament is

any of several parliaments of various countries.

committee

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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

    parliament

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Meanings relating to a political body authorized to exercise governmental powers.
  • # An institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers.
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  • # A group of representatives of the people elected or appointed to serve as a parliament (in sense 1 above)'' for a certain period of time. In this sense the word is commonly used with an ordinal number (for example, ''first parliament'' and ''12th parliament'') or a descriptive adjective (for example, ''(Long Parliament)'', ''(Short Parliament)'' and ''(Rump Parliament) ).
  • Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament .
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  • A collective noun for a flock of owls or rooks.
  • (historical) Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
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  • A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament .

    Derived terms

    * hung parliament * Member of Parliament * majority parliament * minority parliament * parliamental * parliamentarian * parliamentary * Polish parliament