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subcommission

British  
/ ˈsʌbkəˌmɪʃən /

noun

  1. a committee of people answering to a larger commission

    the doping subcommission reported to the medical commission

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They note that the online tally, in which 12 out of 18 subcommission members voted against the proposal, was leaked to the press without approval of the panel’s chair.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 4, 2024

Putin’s longtime finance minister, Anton Siluanov, leads the subcommission, which includes officials from the Kremlin, the central bank and key ministries.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

“There’s no guarantee that the Anthropocene will be agreed upon,” says Jan Zalasiewicz, a Leicester stratigrapher and longtime AWG head who now leads the quaternary subcommission.

From Science Magazine • May 5, 2022

First, a working group drafts a proposal which is submitted to an expert subcommission for review and vote.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2019

To this the Poles made answer that the massing of so many soldiers on the Rumanian frontier might reasonably be objected to by the Rumanians—and so the amoebean word-game went on in the subcommission.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

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