noun
- plural of committer; people who commit or perpetrate an act, especially a crime or offense
- plural of committer; people who are devoted to or pledge themselves to a cause, organization, or relationship
- plural of committer; in software development, people who submit code changes to a repository
Usage: most common in legal and law enforcement contexts
Usage: used in social, political, or organizational contexts
Usage: technical jargon; used in programming and version control contexts
Examples
- The police arrested the committers of the robbery.
- The committers of the fraud scheme faced serious federal charges.
- Environmental committers organized a cleanup campaign.
- The project's committers reviewed and merged the pull requests.
- Committers to the open-source project came from around the world.
- The committers of the crime were sentenced to prison.