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committer

committer noun: a person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.

Noun

committer (plural committers)

  1. A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
  2. (obsolete) A fornicator.
    • The ſin of many men Is within you, and thus much I ſuppose
      That if all committers stood in ranke,
      They'd make a lane[…] <br<And with their spaces reach from hence to hell.1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore
  3. (obsolete) A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
    • For some here affirm, that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin, because in most sinful Actions, the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

Forms of committer

pluralcommitters

Origin of committer

From commit + -er.

Questions about committer

What does committer mean?
Committer means a person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
What part of speech is committer?
Committer is a noun.
What is the plural of committer?
The plural of committer is committers.

Words near committer in the dictionary

  1. committees of the whole
  2. committeeship
  3. committeeships
  4. committeewoman
  5. committeewomen
  6. committer
  7. committers
  8. committest
  9. committeth
  10. committible
  11. committies

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