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aiding and abetting

noun

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Assisting or encouraging another to commit a crime so as to share in the criminal liability.

She never held the gun, but aiding and abetting exposes her to the same sentence.

Similar: complicity

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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