subcommittee
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[edit]subcommittee (plural subcommittees)
- A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.
- 1957 June, J. J. Davis, “Narrow Gauge Railway Museum”, in Railway Magazine, page 393:
- 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.
- 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.
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[edit]committee within a committee
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