单词 | subcommittee |
释义 | † subcommitteen.1 Obsolete (rare and archaic after 17th cent.). British Politics. A member of a parliamentary subcommittee (in sense subcommittee n.2). Cf. committee n.1 1b.After the 17th cent. only in Lords Sub-committees, collectively denoting the members of a House of Lords committee or subcommittee, as distinct from the whole House considered as a committee (cf. note at committee n.2 1a). ΚΠ 1606 R. Bowyer Diary 3 Feb. in Parl. Diary (1931) 22 About this oath was much debate, and in the ende the same was referred to the subcommittees. 1643 Ordinance Lords & Commons for raising Fourteene Thousand Pounds 4 All such persons..shall immediately upon demand make their accounts and payments thereof to the Sub-Committees of that Division wherein such collection hath been made; which Sub-committee hath hereby power to appoint Collectors to gather the said arrears. 1776 J. Hatsell Coll. Cases Priuilege Parl. iii. 140 The Lords, however, immediately resolved themselves into a Committee, and the House being resumed, the Lords Sub-Committees for Privileges were appointed to search for precedents. 1880 Jrnls. House of Lords 24 May 150/2 The Earl of Redesdale reported from the Lords Sub-Committees on the Journals, ‘That the Committee had met, and had come to the following Resolution’. 1902 Standing Orders House of Lords vii. 34 The Lords Sub-Committees on the Journals shall have power to meet after every Session to examine so much of the Journal Book as shall be left unexamined at the time of the ending of such Session. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2019). subcommitteen.2 A committee (committee n.2 1a) composed of some of the members of a larger committee, board, or other body, and reporting to it; a portion of a main committee delegated to consider a particular question. Also with plural agreement. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > subcommittee subcommittee1606 1606 Jrnls. House of Commons 3 Mar. 346/1 The House thought it meet that the Sub-comittee..should retire themselves into the Court of Wards. 1606 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 3 Mar. 346/2 Edward Hobby reporteth the Agreement of the Sub-comittee touching an Answer to the Lords message. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 5 Oct. (1972) VII. 308 The sub-committee have made their report to the grand-committee. 1715 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 38 The sub-committee brought in their overtures as to Mr. Simson's affair. I cannot resume them. 1823 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 376 The committee of five met; no such thing as a sub-committee was proposed. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Dec. 6/3 The central, sub, and executive committees have been appointed. 1906 Minutes Proc. Worc. Educ. Comm. 94 Your Sub-Committee have decided to await recommendations from the Local Committee in the matter. 1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure xvi. 277 Many of the complaints were directed against sub-Committee men, some of whom are accused of using their ‘power of recommendation’..to pay off old scores in the village. 2008 New Yorker 31 Mar. 46/1 Later that year, at a congressional subcommittee hearing, Representative Stewart McKinney summed up the lesson of the rescue effort. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11606n.21606 |
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