"subcommittee" meaning in English

See subcommittee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈsʌb.kəˌmɪti/ Forms: subcommittee [singular], subcommittees [plural]
Etymology: sub- + committee Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|sub|committee}} sub- + committee Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A subcommittee is a division of a committee.
    Sense id: simple-subcommittee-en-noun-Yiw3vXyA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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