transcription, транскрипция: [ pɜ:(r)pɪtreɪt ]
( perpetrates, perpetrating, perpetrated)
If someone perpetrates a crime or any other immoral or harmful act, they do it. ( FORMAL )
A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties...
= commit
VERB : V n
• per‧pe‧tra‧tion
...a very small minority who persist in the perpetration of these crimes.
N-SING : usu N of n
• per‧pe‧tra‧tor
(perpetrators)
The perpetrator of this crime must be traced.
N-COUNT