Definition of subgoal
plural sub-goals
: a goal that is involved in or secondary to achieving a larger goal
- … it would probably also be a mistake to make robots in which subgoals would interfere with the main goals.
- —John McCarthy
- This is, in effect, the question of how relatively broad nonoperational goals are broken down into more specific and concrete operational goals and subgoals.
- —Lyman W. Porter et al.
