committer
- noun
- /kəˈmɪtər/
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delincuente
- He was the avowed committer of over three thousand violent crimes, a ready attacker of his prosecutors, guards, defenders, and fellow inmates alike, a living mockery of the justice process.
The unjust judge is really a fraud committer rather than a fraud preventer, rectifier, and punisher.
- The unjust judge is really a fraud committer rather than a fraud preventer, rectifier, and punisher.
Examples
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The unjust judge is really a fraud committer rather than a fraud preventer, rectifier, and punisher.
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You are a committer of incest.
Fiction book (1999) -
Now that I know they are not perverts and committers of incest, I can be grateful.
Fiction book (1999) -
Their talk, though brief, quickly skewers the myth of the American cowboy: the contradictory aspects of this figure (solitary yet sexual) are merged into the figure of the masturbator, the committer of a taboo act.
Academic text (2016) -
The police arrested the committer of a series of burglaries last night.
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Witnesses identified him as the committer of the vandalism that occurred downtown.
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The prosecutor presented evidence against the committer of the theft to the jury.
Synonyms
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3.5
A person who has committed a crime or broken the law
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6.8
A person who commits a crime or other serious wrong
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4.6
Something, often a person, that causes a crime, mistake or problem
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5.1
A person who breaks a law or other rule
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4.3
A person who breaks the law or hurts other people
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8.8
A person who breaks the law or does something wrong
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7.7
A person who breaks a law or important rule
A person who breaks the law
A person who causes harm and must pay for it by law
How Serious
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Morphology
Etymology
Committer comes from the verb commit, which comes from Latin com- 'together' and mittere 'to send'. A committer of a crime is the person who 'does' or 'carries out' the wrongful act, and the old idea of 'sending' can be seen as 'putting an action into the world', which is why we call the doer a committer.