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VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vigilance committee mean?
• VIGILANCE COMMITTEE (noun)
The noun VIGILANCE COMMITTEE has 1 sense:
1. a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist
Familiarity information: VIGILANCE COMMITTEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("vigilance committee" is a kind of...):
citizens committee; committee (a self-constituted organization to promote something)
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