(politics) In a bicameral legislative body, a decision-making entity composed of members of both houses.

(management) A subcommittee of a board authorized to make some decisions on behalf of the entire board.

An established parliamentary or congressional committee to which all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters regarding a defined scope of subjects get referred to and then returned to parliament or congress along with a recommended measure.

(US, historical) A group of private citizens who administered justice where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate.

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

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

(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.

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

(informal, medicine) Synonym of God squad (“ethics committee”)