subcategory

[ suhb-kat-uh-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee ]

noun

, plural sub·cat·e·go·ries.

1. a subordinate category or a division of a category.

Word History and Origins

Origin of subcategory¹

sub- + category

Example Sentences

Since every product page will link up to its relevant subcategories and category, and every subcategory will link through to its relevant category.

From Search Engine Watch

Google expanded this subcategory to include more examples of YMYL, your money – your life, section for this groups of people section.

From Search Engine Land

With an estimated 12 million customers, Chime is the largest in its highly competitive subcategory of financial technology, or fintech, companies that serve low- to moderate-income individuals underserved by traditional financial institutions.

From ProPublica

If you create a subcategory that has fewer rights and wages, you’re going to shift from traditional employment to this new category of work.

From Washington Post

Google launched the webmaster help center, and the Sitemaps group became a subcategory of a larger Google Group that included categories for lots of other site owner issues.

From Search Engine Land

It is within the realm of workplace violence, but it a minor subcategory of that subject.

From The Daily Beast

Middlemen are a different story because most of them belong to the active subcategory.

From Project Gutenberg