subcommittee

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ committee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌb.kəˌmɪti/

Noun

subcommittee (plural subcommittees)

1. A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.
   • 2003, R.E.M., “Bad Day”, in In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003:

     Have you ever seen the televised St. Vitus subcommittee prize

   • 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^[1]:

     “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.

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

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

Translations

committee within a committee

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小組委員會 / 小组委员会 (zh) (xiǎozǔ wěiyuánhuì)

• Czech: podvýbor (cs) m
• Danish: underudvalg n
• Dutch: ondercommissie f
• Faroese: undirnevnd f
• Finnish: alakomitea
• French: sous-comité (fr) m
• German: Unterausschuss (de) m
• Hungarian: albizottság (hu)
• Irish: fochoiste m
• Italian: sottocomitato (it)
• Manx: fo-ving f
• Mongolian: дэд хороо (ded xoroo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: underkomité m, underkomite m

  Nynorsk: underkomité m, underkomite m

• Russian: подкомите́т (ru) m (podkomitét)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-chomataidh f
• Spanish: subcomité m
• Swedish: underutskott (sv) n, subkommitté (sv) c
• Vietnamese: tiểu ban (vi) (小班), phân ban (vi) (分班)