A board consisting of representatives of the ratepayers, as opposed to the common vestry or assembly of all the ratepayers.

A committee made up of a number of parliamentary or legislative members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee.

plural of select meeting

(religion) A Quaker meeting of ministers and elders.

Unable to speak or communicate orally in certain social settings.

plural of select committee

(US, transitive, euphemistic) To fire (an employee).

(medicine, psychology) an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient / the ability to retrieve certain facts and events but not others

The collection of recyclable waste separately from that which is not recyclable.

plural of selective collection