accomplice has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law,work
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[ noun ] (work) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)

Synonyms

confederate

Related terms

assistant decoy confederate

2
[ noun ] (law,criminal law) someone who helps another person commit a crime

Synonyms

accessary accessory

Used in print

(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)

Since the magnitude of the plan made secrecy impossible , once the wheels had began to turn , persons controlling German industries , social institutions , and armed_forces became , through their anti-Semitism or their tolerance of_it , conscious accomplices of Hitler 's crimes ; whether in the last degree or a lesser one was a matter to be determined individually .

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