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abettor

noun/əˈbetə/

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A person who assists or encourages another to commit an offence.

The principal fired the shot, but the abettor who supplied the weapon faced the same charge.

Similar: accomplice, accessory

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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