supercommittee
- noun
- /ˌsuːpərkəˈmɪti/
- Formal
- During the supercommittee's negotiations, both sides dismissed the other's offer as being less than serious.
- congressional supercommittee
- supercommittee failure
- deficit reduction supercommittee
Examples
-
Members of the supercommittee met weekly to discuss their strategies for addressing the national deficit.
-
The government established a supercommittee to tackle the pressing issues of healthcare reform and debt reduction.
-
Thanks to the failed supercommittee, lawmakers may have a better sense of how the two sides could eventually agree.
Blog text (33) -
The supercommittee did manage to simplify the two parties' fight over taxes.
Blog text (33) -
Maybe the supercommittee at least gave lawmakers a clearer picture of where they disagree.
Blog text (33) -
The supercommittee did reveal that Republicans may be amenable to some tax increases, which seemed improbable before.
Blog text (33) -
In the event the supercommittee failed to come up with a viable plan, the BCA established sequestration as an incentive to force bipartisan compromise.
Blog text (24) -
The BCA also created the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (often referred to as the "supercommittee") to come up with a plan to reduce the deficit by another $1.2 trillion over the same decade.
Blog text (24) -
As tensions rose, the supercommittee struggled to reach a consensus on the proposed budget changes.
Synonyms
817
4.1
A group of people chosen to investigate or manage something
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word supercommittee combines super- meaning 'above' or 'very', as in superhero or supermarket, and committee, a 'group chosen to do a job'. So a supercommittee is an 'above' or extra-powerful committee, which is why it has special authority to make big decisions.