Subcommittee

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Subcommittee \Sub`com*mit"tee\, n.
     An under committee; a part or division of a committee.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . .
           . those orders were commonly disobeyed.  --Milton.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  subcommittee
       n : a subset of committee members organized for a specific
           purpose