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单词 vigilance committee
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
vig′ilance commit′tee, 
    1. Government, Lawan unauthorized committee of citizens organized for the maintenance of order and the summary punishment of crime in the absence of regular or efficient courts.
    2. Government[Hist.](in the South) an organization of citizens using extralegal means to control or intimidate blacks and abolitionists and, during the Civil War, to suppress Union loyalists.
    • 1825–35, American.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
vigilance committee n
  1. (in the US) a self-appointed body of citizens organized to maintain order, punish crime, etc, where an efficient system of courts does not exist
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