A person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)

Usage examples of confederate.

The Confederates only tried balloons a few times, I think, and I only saw one of those being actually sent up.

Confederate doorman Banat had taken it upon himself to institute a new system of doorkeeping.

As a boy in Leake County, Barnett would sit on the porch under a chinaberry tree and listen to his father, John William Barnett, tell tales of his years as a Confederate soldier, witnessing the siege of Vicksburg, having his horse shot out from under him at the Battle of Shilo, and seeing his own father, Captain John Henry Barnett, return home from four years in the Confederate army in clothes riddled by Union gunfire.

I intend to concentrate all the barrels in First Army and hurl them like a spear at the Confederate line.

Assuming the chief command in the Confederate army in the second campaign of the war, he repelled three or four invasions of Virginia, winning as many pitched battles over an enemy of enormously superior resources.

Aaron Morris Belton, late of the Fluvanna Light Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America.

What Bravais quickly discovers is a conspiracy by aliens and their human confederates to harvest brains as onboard guidance units for weapons in an interstellar war.

Why, on the voyage of the Bronx to the Gulf, Ensign Passford, as he was then, discovered two Confederate officers in his crew, and squarely defeated their efforts to capture his ship in the action with the Scotian, I believe it was.

The fact that the Bronx is headed into a Confederate port would not create a rebellion on board unless they were informed of the actual situation.

Lee smiled, both at the byplay he watched and at the way of life a Confederate victory had preserved.

He had lost an arm in the Confederate service, and was recognized by the gambling fraternity as the gamest man among all the trail drovers, while every cowman from the Rio Grande to the Yellowstone knew him as a poker-player.

Confederate machine guns, some on the barrels and others served by infantrymen, made the damnyankee riflemen keep their heads down.

Just the other side of Lubbock, Confederate and damnyankee gunners were doing their best to blow each other to hell and gone.

An awful lot of brave Confederate officers--and damnyankees, too--had died leading from the front.

White House Deseret had suggested a protectorate status for the eastern seaboard, but the Old South preferred to confederate on its own.