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subcommittee

subcommittee

144 4.1
A small group chosen from a larger group of people to handle one task
  • noun
  • /ˌsʌb.kəˈmɪt.i/
: subcomisión
  • Secretary McNamara, on behalf of the subcommittee let me thank you for your appearance here today.
  • chair a subcommittee
  • member of a subcommittee
  • subcommittee hearings

We testified before the House Weaponization of Government subcommittee early in March.

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Examples

  • It's an EU subcommittee which looks at the internal market, infrastructure and employment.

  • But the committee usually refers the bill to an even smaller group, a subcommittee, for close review.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • All you need are the nine other Subcommittee members.

    Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

  • My little subcommittee has power.

    The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)

  • Yesterday, Green was at a subcommittee hearing on COVID.

  • ...is head of the Senate Arms Services subcommittee in charge of our budget.

    Outbreak (1995)

  • As you know, there is a senate subcommittee hearing here Monday.

    Bullitt (1968)

  • I was on a very important subcommittee.

    A Foreign Affair (1948)

  • I sit on the House Appropriations Subcommittee for White House Budget and Management.

    The Debut (2000)

  • The committee decided to form a subcommittee to address the urgent issues raised by the community.

Synonyms

select committee
vssubcommittee
  • Formal
7 4.4

A group of members of parliament who study a particular issue

is a smaller team taken from members to deal with a particular task
subpanel
vssubcommittee
4.6

A small group chosen from a larger committee to work on one task

is formed from members of the larger group to handle a specific task
subcommission
vssubcommittee
  • Formal
6.7

A smaller group within a commission that focuses on a specific task

is drawn from the body's own members to work on a defined issue

Antonyms

committee
∞ 3.2

A group of people who meet to discuss and make decisions about something

How Small

subcommittee
144 4.1
working group
13 2.6
task force
153 3.3
panel
423 3.7
committee
∞ 3.2

Surface Forms

subcommittee singular
subcommittees plural

Morphology

subcommittee = committee (transparent) = sub + committee

Formed by the productive prefix 'sub-' (meaning secondary/under) attached to the familiar noun 'committee', yielding a smaller or subordinate committee.

Etymology

Subcommittee has two parts: sub- meaning 'under', as in subway, and committee, a group of people. So a subcommittee is a smaller group 'under' the main committee that handles a specific task.