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committers

committers is the plural of committer.

Meaning of committer

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

Questions about committers

What is committers the plural of?
Committers is the plural of committer.

Words near committers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: committers (page history and authors); committer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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