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VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("vigilance committee" is a kind of...):
citizens committee; committee (a self-constituted organization to promote something)