subcommission

British  

/ ˈsʌbkəˌmɪʃən /

noun

1. a committee of people answering to a larger commission

   the doping subcommission reported to the medical commission

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subcommission

Neighborhood Council Coalition’s subcommission on charter reform, said there was “no substantive change” to neighborhood councils in the amendment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Internal minutes, reviewed by the Times, show that the subcommission scrutinizes even the smallest details.

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 Emile Joseph Dillon

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