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Noun
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Someone who helps another person commit a crime (synset 109779206)
is a type of: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crimesubtypes:
- abetter, abettor - one who helps or encourages or incites another
- accessory after the fact - a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony
- accessory before the fact - a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration
- accessory during the fact - a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it
- collaborator, confederate, henchman, partner in crime - someone who assists in a plot
same as: accessory
Adjective
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Aiding and abetting in a crime (synset 302363804)
"he was charged with being accessory to the crime"similar to: supportive - furnishing support or assistancesame as: accessory
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