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A subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose
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subcommittee
Word definitions for subcommittee in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subcommittee \Sub`com*mit"tee\, n. An under committee; a part or division of a committee. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. --Milton.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Subcommittee is a sculpture by Tony Cragg . Constructed of mild steel in 1991, in an edition of 4, it will rust with the passage of time. The rack of stamps serves as a satiric commentary on committees. It is in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sub-committee , c.1600, from sub- + committee .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE investigative ▪ If the two Democrats on the investigative subcommittee , Reps. ▪ Gingrich admitted to charges, brought by an investigative subcommittee of the ethics committee, that he brought discredit to the House. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A committee formed by an existing committee.
Usage examples of subcommittee.
Ever the able and resourceful organization man, Brose tabled the proposal for further consideration and appointed someone to form a subcommittee to look into it.
The subcommittee counsel then proceeded through the early stages of Montayne, Lord responding to all questions in a confident, relaxed manner.
Of all the witnesses to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Ethical Merchandising during its investigation of Montayne, Dr.
House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, Hearings, 98th Cong.
House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, 89th Cong.
Air Force members in my chain of command were singularly unimpressed by the fact that an active-duty Air Force colonel appeared before the subcommittee.
The new Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, was talking tough and was quoted saying 20 task forces or subcommittees might investigate corruption in the Clinton White House, although he later backed off on the number 20.
The Court reversed two federal courts and set aside the conviction of Sacher of contempt for refusing to tell the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee whether he was or ever had been a Communist.
Communist affiliation in academia, misidentified the subcommittee and its chairman.
House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, Hearings, 98th Cong.
Study groups and subcommittees were formed, and the whole process looked as though it might take months, if not years, to come to a conclusion.
He looked rather ridiculous up there talking about things like the sociological significance of protest and the psychological content of lynching, about the values of the Lowbrow movement and the hypocrisy of Senator Bartlett and his Subcommittee, about the importance of the scientific method and the necessity for the detachment of the scientist.
In any event, the investigator himself was under current investigation by a Senate subcommittee and after four years of national distress, the United States Senate in its ponderous way was now upon the verge of censuring McCarthy for having behaved discourteously in their house.
House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Special Subcommittee on the U.
When in 1970 Britain applied to join the Common Market Charlie told his wife that he had been approached by the chief whip to chair a subcommittee on food distribution in Europe and felt it was his duty to accept.