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A person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
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accomplice
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Word definitions for accomplice in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accomplice \Ac*com"plice\, n. [Ac- (perh. for the article a or for L. ad) + E. complice. See Complice .] A cooperator. [R.] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! --Shak. (Law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s (earlier complice , late 15c.), from Old French complice "a confederate," from Late Latin complicem (nominative complex ) "partner, confederate," from Latin complicare "fold together" (see complicate ). With parasitic a- on model of accomplish , etc., ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare English) A cooperator. 2 (context legal English) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Under the English common law , an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even if they take no part in the actual criminal offense . For example, in a bank robbery, the person who points the gun at the teller and asks ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: confederate ]
Usage examples of accomplice.
He and any accomplice he brought with him were wraithlike, it was almost as if they ran from the banks and vaporized.
Bobby fit the profile that Scott envisioned as an ideal accomplice, savvy, agile, and smart.
She matched the description of a bank robbery accomplice who had fled in the green van after a dye pack had exploded in it.
They noted the date, time, day of the week, bank location, amount stolen, and whether he had brought an accomplice into the bank.
Leach and his accomplice offered Klaus the opportunity to take a lifeboat into the sea.
This, of course, assumes that our accomplice knew of these parties in advance.
What if the accomplice in first class is something of a criminal mastermind?
If the accomplice were one of them, he or she would have had enough time to warn Sprague.
The older girl opened the door and, with a nervous little giggle, pushed her accomplice into the closet, then followed, closing the door.
He had been using her as an accomplice while telling her almost nothing.
For all her suspense, Ann could not help warming towards an accomplice who carried off an unnerving situation with such a flourish.
By the time she had brought help, Lilias and her accomplice would have disappeared from the summerhouse.
In the same manner as the forest is an accomplice through its density, so the legislation was an accomplice by its obscurity.
She had lost an accomplice who had often consoled her, and she had gained nothing, since one of her maids was now acquainted with the secret of the crime at the Borderie.
Blanche was due in great measure to the sinister prophecies of the accomplice to whom she had denied the last consolations of religion.