A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
source: WordNet 3.0
a self-constituted organization to promote something
source: WordNet 3.0
One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
source: Webster 1913
One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
