ALL meanings of vigilance committee
vig·i·lance com·mit·tee
V v - noun vigilance committee an unauthorized committee of citizens organized for the maintenance of order and the summary punishment of crime in the absence of regular or efficient courts. 1
- noun vigilance committee History/Historical. (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. 1
- noun vigilance committee (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 0
- noun vigilance committee a group organized outside of legal authority to keep order and punish crime because the usual law-enforcement agencies do not exist or are alleged to be inefficient 0
- noun vigilance committee (US, historical) A group of private citizens who administered justice where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate. 0