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noun
The system of committees, composed of representatives of the member states, used to oversee European Commission implementing acts made under European Union legislation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: European-Union, countable, uncountable
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noun
The study of how committees could work, expand, and ramify.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, humorous, uncountable
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History
From committee + -ology, introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in humorous essays published in The Economist.
Across languages
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