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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subcommittee
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.
■ NOUN
house
▪ Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House subcommittee on immigration.
▪ In his apology to the House subcommittee, Gingrich claimed he was simply guilty of a mistake.
senate
▪ Lauch Faircloth, a Republican who heads the Senate subcommittee that oversees the district.
▪ The Senate subcommittee, like too many government entities, asked the wrong questions and provided no answers.
▪ Kennedy, who wrote his own dialogue, appears as chairman of a Senate subcommittee on health care reform.
▪ Next Tuesday, the bill goes for its first hearing in front of a Senate subcommittee.
■ VERB
chair
▪ DeConcini also chaired the Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing Customs' budget.
▪ But the man who chaired the subcommittee says he now disputes the findings.
▪ Clay Shaw, R-Fla., who chairs the subcommittee that will change the 1996 welfare law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Senate foreign relations subcommittee was due to work in tandem with a task force drawn from the House.
▪ A special subcommittee is expected to meet later this month to begin discussing potential sites for the sculpture.
▪ But Democrats flatly denied that the subcommittee already had unanimously agreed to recommend a reprimand.
▪ But the man who chaired the subcommittee says he now disputes the findings.
▪ Clair F.. Gill testified before the two subcommittees.
▪ Essentially, council subcommittee recommendations formulated the week of September 17 were accepted without question by the full council five days later.
▪ In furtherance of these aims he represents the Modular Course on the Academic Board and its subcommittees.
▪ The three new subcommittees each met in Panmunjom, but none of them produced any significant progress.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subcommittee

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subcommittee

also sub-committee, c.1600, from sub- + committee.

Wiktionary
subcommittee

n. A committee formed by an existing committee.

WordNet
subcommittee

n. a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose

Wikipedia
Subcommittee (Cragg)

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.

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.