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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATCH COMMITTEE

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Watch Committee is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WATCH COMMITTEE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Watch committee

In England and Wales, watch committees were the local government bodies which oversaw policing from 1835 until, in some areas, 1964.

Definition of Watch Committee in the English dictionary

The definition of Watch Committee in the dictionary is a local government committee composed of magistrates and representatives of the county borough council responsible for the efficiency of the local police force.

WORDS THAT END LIKE WATCH COMMITTEE

action committee
Central Committee
committee
disciplinary committee
Education Committee
executive committee
Internal Security Committee
International Olympic Committee
joint committee
management committee
National Executive Committee
planning committee
policy committee
select committee
selection committee
senate committee
settee
standing committee
steering committee
subcommittee
works committee

Synonyms and antonyms of Watch Committee in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Watch Committee» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATCH COMMITTEE

Find out the translation of Watch Committee to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Watch Committee from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Watch Committee» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

观看委员会
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Comité de Vigilancia
570 millions of speakers

English

Watch Committee
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घड़ी समिति
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

لجنة المراقبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Смотреть Комитет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Comissão de Acompanhamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ওয়াচ কমিটি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Comité de surveillance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jawatankuasa Watch
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Watch Komitee
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウォッチ委員会
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시계 위원회
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Panitia Watch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Ủy ban đồng hồ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கண்காணிப்புக் குழு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वॉच कमिटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İzleme Komitesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Comitato di vigilanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Oglądaj Komitet
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дивитися Комітет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Comitetul Watch
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Παρακολουθήστε Επιτροπή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Watch Komitee
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Armbandsur kommittén
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Watch komiteen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Watch Committee

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WATCH COMMITTEE»

The term «Watch Committee» is normally little used and occupies the 137.241 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WATCH COMMITTEE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Watch Committee

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATCH COMMITTEE»

Discover the use of Watch Committee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Watch Committee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Borough of Salford. The Chief Constable's report to the ...
WATCH COMMITTEE OF THE BOROUGH OF SALFORD. CHIEF CONSTABLE'S REPORT. The Chief Constable, in presenting the Annual Report in connection with the Criminal and Statistical Returns for the year ending August 31st, 1849, ...
Stephen Neal, 1849
2
No Neutral Ground: South Africa Confrontation With Activist ...
Preface.
Africa Watch Committee, 1989
3
Report[s] of the Royal Commission on Liquor Licensing Laws ...
The same witness, while exculpating the watch committee from being influenced by any unworthy motives, still holds very strongly the opinion that the disqualifications which attach to magistrates should attach to members of the watch ...
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Liquor Licensing Laws, Viscount Arthur Wellesley Peel Peel, 1899
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Report ... Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, ...
Take the case of the Watch Committee ; the duties of the Watch Committee are statutory, are they not ? — They are. 3839. They are not delegated by the Council ? — No. 3840. What do you say with regard to the minutes of the Watch ...
Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on Municipal Trading, 1903
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Papers by Command
[Continued. Lord Weardale — continued. sented to the Watch" Committee on the subject." That is signed by the Lord Mayor. 2100. That was a circular addressed to Manchester traders ? — Yes. 2101. It was held in the Lord Mayor's parlour.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1906
6
Human Rights in Indonesia and East Timor
Contents:.
Diane Orentlicher, Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), 1989
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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
Before we leave that point it would be interesting to know what is the police supervisory connexion between the council, through its watch committee, and the cab drivers;? — Well, before any licences are granted to carriages, the carriages  ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1895
8
Reports from Committees: Thirty-Two Volumes.
Then, in fact, the whole power of appointment of the police constables rests with the watch committee at Bath ? — Decidedly so ; 1 believe, by the Act of Parliament, it is intended that it should be so ; that is the way in which we read the Act at ...
‎1853
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Public General Statutes Passed in the ... & ... Years of the ...
Watch Committee. Constitution of Watch Committee. Watch Committee to be appointed annually. For Supply of occasional Vacancies. Notice of Appointment of Members of Watch Com~ mittee. Powers of Watch Committee. Borough Fund.
‎1857
10
Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet ...
NewYork: UniverseBooks,1976. U.S.HelsinkiWatch Committee.39 WhoBelieved: Helsinki Monitors in the USSR. New York: U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee,1980. U.S. HelsinkiWatch Committee.A Decade of Dedication:Charter 77,1977to 1987.
Christian Peterson, 2012

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATCH COMMITTEE»

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PCC election: A return to local control
In the 19th and early 20th Century there were locally elected "watch committees" who oversaw policing with little interference from the Home Office. The idea ... «BBC News, Nov 12»

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