works
deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
| dye-works | a workshop where dyeing is done |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
| public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
sewage system
sewer system
sewage works | facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage |
works
workings | the internal mechanism of a device |
| works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds |
board meeting
committee meeting | a meeting for administrative purposes |
| works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
blue ribbon commission
blue ribbon committee | an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue |
committee
commission | a special group delegated to consider some matter, a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle |
| committee citizens committee | a selfonstituted organization to promote something |
| select committee | a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose |
| vigilance committee | a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist |
| welcoming committee | a committee to welcome new residents to a community |
| standing committee | a permanent committee |
| Ways and Means Committee | a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue |
| steering committee | a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body |
ethics committee
ethics panel | a committee appointed to consider ethical issues |
| finance committee | a committee appointed to consider financial issues |
political action committee
PAC | committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates |
Security Intelligence Review Committee
SIRC | an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies |
Committee for State Security
KGB
Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
| chairman of the board | the chairman of the board of directors of a corporation |
| committee member | a member of a committee |
president chairman chairwoman chair
chairperson | the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization, address your remarks to the chairperson |
| vice chairman | one ranking below or serving in the place of a chairman |
a whole shebang
whole kit and caboodle
kit and caboodle
whole kit and boodle
kit and boodle
whole kit
whole caboodle
whole works
works
full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
chair
chairman | act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university, She chaired the department for many years |