CITIZENS COMMITTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does citizens committee mean? 

• CITIZENS COMMITTEE (noun)
  The noun CITIZENS COMMITTEE has 1 sense:

1. a self-constituted organization to promote something

  Familiarity information: CITIZENS COMMITTEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITIZENS COMMITTEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A self-constituted organization to promote something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

citizens committee; committee

Hypernyms ("citizens committee" is a kind of...):

NGO; nongovernmental organization (an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citizens committee"):

vigilance committee (a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist)

welcoming committee (a committee to welcome new residents to a community)