key committee

collocation in English

meaningsofkeyandcommittee

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key
adjective
uk
/kiː/us
/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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committee
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/kəˈmɪt.i/us
/kəˈmɪt̬.i/
a small group of people chosen to represent a larger organization and either make decisions or collect information ...
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(Definition ofkeyandcommitteefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A member might also be a pivotal vote on akeycommitteeor have enough of an independent following to launch an attack on the leadership.
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This may be a particularly opportune moment to ask the question, because onekeycommitteeappears to have reached the end of its work and another is just beginning.
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Oberholtzer was akeycommitteemember in drawing up the organization's constitution and presided over four of the initial sessions.
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Keycommitteemembers customarily include the operations manager and the data processing manager.
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In other words, did these legislatures develop key committees that were pockets of expertise?
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Williams was subsequently stripped of severalkeycommitteepositions.
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For obvious reasons we found it impossible to put them on some of the key committees—especially the salary committees of their own senior members.
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I should add that representatives of the workforce should also be included on the key committees.
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I also met the chairmen of key committees of the parliament and representatives of all political parties.
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Lawmakers that chair key committees have been leading recipients, some of whom received over $1.0 million in contributions.
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