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Subject:  [MUSEUM-L] accessioning and other jargon
 OK, folks--here's the next great challenge for a potentially
 interminable Museum-L thread: authentic museum jargon which cannot be
 found in a standard dictionary. At the moment, I can't think of any
 candidates! I'm sure someone will be happy to remedy that.

 --David Haberstich

My candidate is 'committee', as used by ICOM.  It means: "a group, of
thousands of people, and potentially hundreds of thousands of people,
with a common interest, run by a board".

Maybe it's used in this sense in other international settings, too,
and so isn't a museum word.