STANDING COMMITTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does standing committee mean? 

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

1. a permanent committee

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STANDING COMMITTEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A permanent committee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

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

Ways and Means Committee (a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue)