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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan);
[syn: accomplice, confederate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Accomplice \Ac*com"plice\, n. [Ac- (perh. for the article a or for L. ad) + E. complice. See Complice.] [1913 Webster] 1. A cooperator. [R.] [1913 Webster] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. (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. [1913 Webster] Syn: Abettor; accessory; assistant; associate; confederate; coadjutor; ally; promoter. See Abettor. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

accomplice n 1: a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: accomplice, confederate]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.