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super-committee

noun

  1. government a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of super-committee1

from super (sense 2) + committee (sense 1)
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Example Sentences

The cross-party Liaison Committee is a kind of super-committee made up of all the MPs who chair those individual select committees.

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The Liaison Committee is a super-committee made up of the chairs of 14 senior select committees.

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During his time in the House of Commons, he was chairman of the European scrutiny select committee for 14 years and a member of the liaison super-committee between 1992 and 2006.

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The super-committee failed and the sharp cuts were imposed.

The whole unwieldy process came crashing down in July 2011 with a brief shutdown that produced a time-buying agreement to set up a super-committee that would reach a tax-and-spending deal in 2012 — or impose draconian, across-the-board defense and welfare spending cuts through sequestration.

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