subcommittee

What it means

1. A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.

   Have you ever seen the televised St. Vitus subcommittee prize

   2003, R.E.M., “Bad Day”, in In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003

   3 more examples

   The society's museum sub-committee is aiming to gather narrow-gauge railway exhibits from throughout the British Isles, and further accommodation will be provided to house the growing collection.

   1957 June 28, J. J. Davis, “Narrow Gauge Railway Museum”, in Railway Magazine, page 393

   “We all know that this is a second-best option” said Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who chairs one of the Homeland Security subcommittees under Thompson.

   2021 July 12, Lauren Fox, Jeremy Herb, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, “‘We’ll do this work as long as it takes’: Thompson readies for political fight leading Jan. 6 investigation”, in CNN

   The subcommittee report says that if evidence of the virus’ natural origin existed, it would have surfaced by now.

   2024 December 2, Katherine Dillinger, “House Covid-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic”, in CNN

In a sentence

The society's museum sub-committee is aiming to gather narrow-gauge railway exhibits from throughout the British Isles, and further accommodation will be provided to house the growing collection.

1957 June 28, J. J. Davis, “Narrow Gauge Railway Museum”, in Railway Magazine, page 393

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
2. Proto-Italic*supo
3. Latinsub
4. Latinsub-
5. Englishsub-
6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
8. Proto-Italic*kom
9. Proto-Italic*kom-
10. Latincon-
11. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
12. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
13. Proto-Indo-European*méyth₂eti
14. Proto-Italic*meitō
15. Old Latinmītō
16. Latinmittō
17. Latincommittō
18. Middle Englishcommitten
19. Englishcommit
20. Englishcommittee
21. Englishsubcommittee

From sub- + committee.