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

Flynn said this past two-year term on the City Council has been particularly fraught, with divisiveness at the national level trickling down to local politics, which led him to pursue the formation of a civility subcommittee for the body. —Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025

Commissioner Siana Smith was in charge of the subcommittee that helped select the sculptures. —Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025

In 1993, the beer and liquor industry gave thousands of dollars specifically to the eight subcommittee legislators who killed a push to pass a version of the law without the passenger loophole, reporting from that year shows. —Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2025

Richardson, who chairs a Senate budget subcommittee, grilled Cal OES officials about the lack of a timeline and the project’s ballooning cost during a May hearing. —William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 23 Nov. 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