Usually means: Permanent committee with specific responsibilities.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word standing committee:

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  1. standing committee: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. standing committee: Merriam-Webster
  3. standing committee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. standing committee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. standing committee: Vocabulary.com
  6. standing committee: Wordnik
  7. standing committee: Wiktionary
  8. standing committee: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. standing committee: Dictionary.com
  10. Standing Committee, Standing committee (Canada), Standing committee (India), Standing committee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. standing committee: Rhymezone
  12. standing committee: FreeDictionary.org
  13. standing committee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. standing committee: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. standing committee: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  6. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. standing committee: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (standing committee)

noun:  An established parliamentary or congressional committee to which all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters regarding a defined scope of subjects get referred to and then returned to parliament or congress along with a recommended measure.

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