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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Commit′tee of Correspond′ence, [Amer. Hist.]- American Historyan intercolonial committee organized 1772 by Samuel Adams in Massachusetts to keep colonists informed of British anticolonial actions and to plan colonial resistance or countermeasures.
- American History(sometimes l.c.) any of various similar organizations formed for the same purpose during the late colonial period.
Also called Correspondence Committee. |