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subcommittee

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsʌb.kəˌmɪti/
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  • CMU ARPABET: S AH1 B K AH0 M IH1 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: committee, commission

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth2- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth2eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Latin committōbor. Middle English committen English commit English -ee English committee English subcommittee From sub- + committee.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 小組委員會 /小组委员会 (xiǎozǔ wěiyuánhuì) — committee within a committee
  • Czech: podvýbor — committee within a committee
  • Danish: underudvalg — committee within a committee
  • Dutch: ondercommissie — committee within a committee
  • Faroese: undirnevnd — committee within a committee
  • Finnish: alakomitea — committee within a committee
  • French: sous-comité — committee within a committee
  • German: Unterausschuss — committee within a committee
  • Hungarian: albizottság — committee within a committee
  • Irish: fochoiste — committee within a committee
  • Italian: sottocomitato — committee within a committee
  • Manx: fo-ving — committee within a committee
  • Mongolian: дэд хороо (ded xoroo) — committee within a committee
  • Norwegian Bokmål: underkomité — committee within a committee
  • Norwegian Bokmål: underkomite — committee within a committee
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: underkomité — committee within a committee
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: underkomite — committee within a committee
  • Polish: podkomisja — committee within a committee
  • Polish: podkomitet — committee within a committee
  • Russian: подкомите́т (podkomitét) — committee within a committee
  • Scottish Gaelic: fo-chomataidh — committee within a committee
  • Spanish: subcomité — committee within a committee
  • Swedish: underutskott — committee within a committee
  • Swedish: subkommitté — committee within a committee
  • Tagalog: kublupon — committee within a committee
  • Vietnamese: tiểu ban — committee within a committee
  • Vietnamese: phân ban — committee within a committee
Real reading context

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