subcommitteesub‧com‧mit‧tee /ˈsʌbkəˌmɪti/ noun [countable] 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- A Senate foreign relations subcommittee was due to work in tandem with a task force drawn from the House.
- A special subcommittee is expected to meet later this month to begin discussing potential sites for the sculpture.
- But Democrats flatly denied that the subcommittee already had unanimously agreed to recommend a reprimand.
- But the man who chaired the subcommittee says he now disputes the findings.
- Clair F.. Gill testified before the two subcommittees.
- Essentially, council subcommittee recommendations formulated the week of September 17 were accepted without question by the full council five days later.
- In furtherance of these aims he represents the Modular Course on the Academic Board and its subcommittees.
- The three new subcommittees each met in Panmunjom, but none of them produced any significant progress.
WORD SETS► Groupings
Collocationsagitate, verbagitation, nounagitator, nounbipartisan, adjectivebipartite, adjectivebloc, nounBolshevik, nouncapitalism, nouncentrist, adjectivecoalition, nouncommie, nouncommunism, nouncommunist, nouncommunist, adjectiveCon, confederacy, nounconfederate, nounconfederation, nouncongress, nounconservatism, nounDem., disloyal, adjectivedissident, noundivide, verbdivisive, adjectivefascism, nounfascist, nounfederal, adjectivefederate, verbfederation, nounfront, nounginger group, nounhegemony, nounheterodox, adjectiveIndependent, nouninfighting, nouninterest group, nounIRA, nounIron Curtain, the, Lab, Labour, nounleftie, nounleftist, adjectiveleft-of-centre, adjectiveleft-wing, adjectivelefty, nounLib Dem, nounLiberal, nounLiberal Democrats, nounLiberal Party, loyalist, nounLuddite, nounmachine, nounmajority leader, nounminority leader, nounmoderate, adjectivemoderate, nounmonarchist, nounmovement, nounnationalism, nounnationalist, adjectivenationalist, nounNazi, nounneutral, adjectivenon-partisan, adjectivepalace revolution, nounparamilitary, adjectivepartisan, adjectivepartisan, nounparty, nounparty political, adjectiveparty politics, nounpinko, nounpro-, prefixpro-choice, adjectiveR, rabble-rousing, nounradical, nounrally, nounreactionary, adjectiverealign, verbrebel, nounrebellion, nounrebellious, adjectivered, adjectivered, nounrepublican, nounrevolt, nounrevolt, verbrevolutionary, adjectiverevolutionary, nounrightist, adjectiveright-of-centre, adjectiveright-wing, adjectiveroyalist, nounseparatist, nounspecial interest group, nounsplinter group, nounsplit, verbsubcommittee, nounsubversion, nounsuffragette, nounsympathizer, nounsympathy, nountendency, nounTory, nounTrotskyite, nountrue-blue, adjectiveUnionist, nounuprising, nounWhig, nounwing, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► investigative
a small group formed from a committee to deal with a particular subject in more detail· If the two Democrats on the investigative subcommittee, Reps.· Gingrich admitted to charges, brought by an investigative subcommittee of the ethics committee, that he brought discredit to the House.
NOUN► house· Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House subcommittee on immigration.· In his apology to the House subcommittee, Gingrich claimed he was simply guilty of a mistake.
► senate· Lauch Faircloth, a Republican who heads the Senate subcommittee that oversees the district.· The Senate subcommittee, like too many government entities, asked the wrong questions and provided no answers.· Kennedy, who wrote his own dialogue, appears as chairman of a Senate subcommittee on health care reform.· Next Tuesday, the bill goes for its first hearing in front of a Senate subcommittee.
VERB► chair· DeConcini also chaired the Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing Customs' budget.· But the man who chaired the subcommittee says he now disputes the findings.· Clay Shaw, R-Fla., who chairs the subcommittee that will change the 1996 welfare law.