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.

A committee set up to determine the order of business for another body, or to manage the general course of an operation

plural of steering committee

A group of experts responsible for reviewing scientific conference submissions and drafting the conference program.

(vulgar slang, humorous, often derogatory) Women or girls with small breasts, viewed as a collective.

plural of select committee

(historical) A committee of ministers sent by the General Assembly to carry out an ordination or induction, where the local presbytery refused to act, under the Moderate domination in 18th-century Scotland.

plural of riding committee

A meeting of a deliberative assembly according to modified procedural rules based on those of a committee.

plural of committee of the whole