From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishperpetratorper‧pe‧tra‧tor /ˈpɜːpətreɪtə $ ˈpɜːrpətreɪtər/ noun [countable] formalsomeone who does something morally wrong or illegal → culprit
The perpetrators were never caught.perpetrator of
The perpetrators of racially motivated violence must be punished.Examples from the Corpusperpetrator• We know about black people as victims, but not about white people as perpetrators of crimes against black people.• Already the police were pulling imaginedperpetrators from among them.• They are the perpetrators of futility.• Whatever may have happened, it was treated as an act of war and in these circumstances the perpetratorsforfeited all rights.• She knew what had happened but she had completely forgotten the details - including the description of the perpetrator.• A deed planned in coldblood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.• The perpetrators of the coup would be imprisoned by the storm for the next twenty-four hours.perpetrator of• the perpetrator of a sex crime
