Committee on Appropriations

noun GOVERNMENT, FINANCE

Definition

› in the US, a group of people from the House of Representatives that is responsible for deciding how the government's money will be spent

(Definition of Committee on Appropriations noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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