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COMMITTEE MEMBER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does committee member mean?
• COMMITTEE MEMBER (noun)
The noun COMMITTEE MEMBER has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: COMMITTEE MEMBER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a committee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("committee member" is a kind of...):
fellow member; member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "committee member"):
committeeman (a man who is a member of committee)
committeewoman (a woman who is a member of a committee)
director (member of a board of directors)
regent; trustee (members of a governing board)
Holonyms ("committee member" is a member of...):
commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)
Context examples
"Both these prizes (...) tell us something essential, something existential about our place in the Universe", said selection committee member Ulf Danielsson.
(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)
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