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committeewoman

committeewoman

1 4.5
A woman who is a member of a group that makes decisions
  • noun
  • /kəˈmɪtiˌwʊmən/
translation icon : miembro del comité
  • "National committeewoman"?
  • a national committeewoman
  • a Republican committeewoman
  • a state committeewoman

Examples

  • Not Carlie Rogers, a Republican state committeewoman from Brevard.

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  • Groggy after a long night and seated behind a banquet table in the back of the room, Republican National Committeewoman Heidi Smith, a longtime state party leader, dutifully handed out convention credentials to a steady flow of delegates stopping by on their way to the delegation's opening breakfast.

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  • She's a Republican National Committeewoman now.

    Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

  • In Maine, the defeated RNC committeewoman contested the results.

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  • That's the context that people who criticize that Republican committeewoman are working with.

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  • Mah has been a state representative since 2002, and she is a Democratic Party precinct committeewoman.

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  • Scott's other issue, according to one state committeewoman, is that he is already being perceived as a figurehead rather than a full-time chair.

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  • Jean McGuire was elected as the city's first black school committeewoman in 2018.

  • The local political party nominated a new committeewoman to represent the district.

  • As a committed advocate for education, she served as a state committeewoman for several years.

Synonyms

committee member
vscommitteewoman
23 2.5

A person who belongs to a committee and takes part in its meetings and decisions

refers specifically to a female person rather than to any gender

Surface Forms

committeewoman singular
committeewomen plural

Morphology

committeewoman = committee + woman (transparent) = committee + woman

The word is a straightforward compound of 'committee' and 'woman', clearly indicating a female member of a committee.

Etymology

Committeewoman is formed from committee and woman. A committee is a group 'entrusted' with a task — like the verb commit, which means 'to give a job to someone' — so a committeewoman is a woman chosen and trusted to work with others on that task.