subcommittee

noun

sub·​com·​mit·​tee ˈsəb-kə-ˌmi-tē 

ˌsəb-kə-ˈmi-

: a subdivision of a committee usually organized for a specific purpose

Examples of subcommittee in a Sentence

The Senate has formed a subcommittee to set up an investigation.

Recent Examples on the Web

Salazar is the chair of the House’s Western Hemisphere foreign affairs subcommittee. —Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025

Earlier this month, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, ranking member of the House subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, sent Bondi a letter. —Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2025

Keating, the ranking member of the subcommittee, said. —Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2025

On Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers pushed back on that plan in a House subcommittee meeting focused on fixing problems with the BEAD program, which has been in the planning stages since President Biden signed the funding into law as part of 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. —Michael Kan, PCMAG, 5 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1606, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for subcommittee

• committee
• permittee
• prakriti
• atomicity
• catholicity
• ellipticity
• historicity
• mutuality
• bitty
• city
• ditty
• gritty

Kids Definition

subcommittee

noun

sub·​com·​mit·​tee ˈsəb-kə-ˌmit-ē 

ˌsəb-kə-ˈmit-ē

: a part of a committee usually organized for a certain purpose

Legal Definition

subcommittee

noun

sub·​com·​mit·​tee ˈsəb-kə-ˌmi-tē 

: a subdivision of a committee that is assigned a portion of the committee's jurisdiction, holds hearings, amends legislation, and reports to the committee