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ACCESSARY

Dictionary entry overview: What does accessary mean?

• ACCESSARY (noun)
The noun ACCESSARY has 1 sense:

1. someone who helps another person commit a crime

Familiarity information: ACCESSARY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ACCESSARY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Someone who helps another person commit a crime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

accessary; accessory

Hypernyms ("accessary" is a kind of...):

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accessary"):

abetter; abettor (one who helps or encourages or incites another)

accessory after the fact (a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony)

accessory before the fact (a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration)

accessory during the fact (a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it)

collaborator; confederate; henchman; partner in crime (someone who assists in a plot)

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