0 a number of people chosen from a committee (= a small group of people who represent a larger organization and make decisions for it) to study and report on a particular subject:
Several subcommittees will be set up to deal with specific environmental issues.
1 a number of people chosen from a committee (= a small group of people who represent a larger organization) to study or manage a particular subject
2 a number of people chosen from a committee to study and report on a particular subject:
Now it is four, inserting the subcommittees and notably slowing the process, while individual entrepreneurship makes a mockery of old-style negotiating with the president.
The docket also shows the appointment of a subcommittee to review the nomination.
Two (subcommittees 1 and 8) included all the members of the main committee.
One large co-operative had set up three subcommittees, responsible for prescribing, audit or complaints.
The subcommittee was given one month to submit its report.
The subcommittee was abolished in 1977, leaving the full committee, since then, exclusively in charge of handling election contests.
The subcommittees are going through motions that induce what he feels is a wholly false sense of encouragement.
The subcommittees met 77 times, co-opting 72 officials, and interviewing 87 witnesses.
