welcoming committee
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈwɛlkəmɪŋ kəˈmɪti/
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comité de bienvenida
- Upon arriving at the event, we were greeted by a friendly welcoming committee ready to assist us.
- an official welcoming committee
- neighborhood welcoming committee
- part of the welcoming committee
And then she sees this, what many of them call a welcoming committee of these people.
- And then she sees this, what many of them call a welcoming committee of these people.
Examples
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When these groups arrived, they found waiting for them a Democratic welcoming committee.
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Kevin and his girl, RADA, are the welcoming committee as the RV pulls into the parking lot.
Fiction book (2001) -
I love the welcoming committee around here.
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Quite the welcoming committee last night.
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Check out the welcoming committee.
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This, friends, is the welcoming committee.
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Don lives around the corner, I'm up the street, and we're the neighborhood welcoming committee.
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There's a welcoming committee waiting for you on the outside.
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Ryan had the welcoming committee waiting when he stepped off that decommissioned ship.
Blog text (1) -
A jeep containing our official welcoming committee, including the region's president, rolled toward us across the tarmac.
Academic text (1993)
How Welcoming
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group appointed to greet and assist newcomers' is directly and transparently compositional from 'welcoming' (friendly, inviting) + 'committee' (a group formed for a purpose). This noun phrase pattern is straightforward and common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun welcoming committee comes from a simple picture: welcoming (to greet someone) and committee (a small group chosen to do a job). Communities would pick a few people to meet, give information and help new arrivals, so today the phrase means 'a group that greets and helps newcomers'.