citizens committee
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- noun
- /ˈsɪtɪzənz kəˈmɪti/
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comité de ciudadanos
- Legally speaking, there is a precedent for forming a citizens committee.
- Citizens Committee to Repeal
Examples
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The school earlier received a grant from the Citizens Committee for New York City, an organization that awards grants of $500 to $3,000 to community projects, including school gardens.
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The citizens committee organized a fundraising event to support the local community center.
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The Pro Measure U Citizen Committee held a rally a couple of weeks ago.
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Over 250 persons, representing more than 40 states, joined the Citizens Committee, and hundreds more worked in close cooperation with the members and other organizations.
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In 1942, he had served as secretary and legal counsel for the Sojourner Truth Citizens Committee.
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On January 11, the Saint Paul Polish Citizens Committee requested representation on each local board for access to the addresses of Polish aliens.
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In another clinical class, students worked with a citizens committee on slum housing to try to come up with better ways to enforce the housing code.
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The Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion, in its final report, attested that the president's message "did more than influence Congress directly."
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The idea was a hit among the students and the citizens committee, though it hasn't been implemented—at least not yet.
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Despite attempts by The Citizens Committee to Repeal Exclusion and the FDR administration to minimize visible Chinese American participation in campaigning for repeal, the Chinese American community actively pursued repeal legislation in Congress.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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3.2
A group of people who meet to discuss and make decisions about something
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'citizen' (private member of the community) with 'committee' (a group formed to address specific matters); the phrase simply denotes a committee made up of citizens. This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun citizens committee comes from the simple image of everyday citizens sitting together as a committee to talk about and fix a problem in their neighborhood. So, the phrase means 'a group of regular people who join to work on a local issue'.