how to pronounce perjury

/ˈpɜː.dʒəɹ.i/

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perjury is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of perjury in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… had committed perjury as a result of the …”

meaning of perjury

Perjury is the crime of lying under oath.

perjury frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word perjury occurs in english on average 0.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics perjury can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that perjury can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;