Crossword clues for accomplice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accomplice \Ac*com"plice\, n. [Ac- (perh. for the article a or for L. ad) + E. complice. See Complice.]
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A cooperator. [R.]
Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices!
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(Law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. ``And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason.''
--Johnson.Note: It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of) before the crime; as, A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to before a thing. ``Suspected for accomplice to the fire.''
--Dryden.Syn: Abettor; accessory; assistant; associate; confederate; coadjutor; ally; promoter. See Abettor.
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., or perhaps by assimilation of indefinite article in phrase a complice.
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.
WordNet
n. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: confederate]
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 for the money is guilty of armed robbery. Anyone else directly involved in the commission of the crime, such as the lookout or the getaway car driver, is an accomplice, even if in the absence of an underlying offense keeping a lookout or driving a car would not be an offense.
An accomplice differs from an accessory in that an accomplice is present at the actual crime, and could be prosecuted even if the main criminal (the principal) is not charged or convicted. An accessory is generally not present at the actual crime, and may be subject to lesser penalties than an accomplice or principal.
At law, an accomplice has lesser guilt than the person he or she is assisting, is subject to lesser prosecution for the same crime, and faces the smaller criminal penalties. As such, the three accomplices to the bank robbery above can also to a degree be found guilty of armed robbery even if only one stole money.
The fairness of the doctrine that the accomplice is still guilty has been subject to much discussion, particularly in cases of capital crimes. Accomplices have been prosecuted for felony murder even if the actual person who committed the murder died at the crime scene or otherwise did not face capital punishment.
In jurisdictions based on the common law, the concept of an accomplice has often been heavily modified by statute, or replaced by new concepts entirely.
Accomplice is a 1946 black-and-white film. The film, from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), was shot in four days.
An accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime but takes no part in the actual criminal offense.
Accomplice may also refer to:
- Accomplice (film), a 1946 film noir
- "The Accomplice" (The O.C.), an episode of The O.C.
- "The Accomplice" (The Zeta Project), an episode of The Zeta Project
- The Accomplices, a 2007 play by Bernard Weintraub
- Accomplice, a band fronted by Johnny Gioeli
- Accomplice (company), a venture capital firm
- Accomplices (film), a 2009 film
Accomplice is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startup companies, with specialties in cybersecurity, eSports, data analytics, S&B class software, emerging hardware platforms, and marketplaces. Accomplice is one of the most active early stage firms in New England. A majority of Accomplice’s investments are in Boston, with others throughout the U.S., in Canada, and in the E.U.
Accomplice is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formerly known as Atlas Venture, the firm announced in October 2014 that it was splitting its technology and life sciences franchises. The technology group renamed as Accomplice; the life sciences group retained the name Atlas Venture.
The technology group, then operating as FKA (Formerly Known as Atlas), crowdsourced its search for a new name in March 2015. “Accomplice” was chosen and the individual who pitched the name won a $25,000 investment in the new fund and $25,000 to donate to a TUGG nonprofit.
Accomplice’s partners Jeff Fagnan, Jon Karlen, Christopher P. Lynch, and Ryan Moore have invested in over 180 companies. A sample of current investments include AngelList, Carbon Black, clypd, DataRobot, DataXu, DraftKings, FreshBooks, Hopper, InsightSquared, Integral Ad Science, Joist, Lagoa, Mojo Motors, MOO, Patreon, PillPack, Recorded Future, Skillz, sqrrl, Threat Stack, Valore, Veracode, and Zoopla.
Accomplice has created multiple community initiatives, including: Maiden Lane, an investment platform built to invest in AngelList Syndicates; Boston Syndicate, an investment program that sponsors local investments made by New England-based founders and angels; TUGG (Technology Underwriting Greater Good), a nonprofit connecting Boston’s technology and youth-focused nonprofit communities; and hack/reduce, a nonprofit cultivating big data experts and companies in Boston.
The Accomplice partners raised over $3.0 billion investor commitments across nine funds as part of Atlas Venture. In March 2015, Accomplice closed its tenth fund and its first under its new name with an oversubscribed $200 million tech-only fund.
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.