commettere — meaning in English

English meaning

• commit verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
• embezzle verb To steal money that has been placed in your care, especially from your employer.

Senses

commettere is used for these senses in English:

• commit (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
• embezzle (legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
• get up to To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper.

commit — full definition

1. verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
2. verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
3. verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.

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