accomplice
noun /əˈkʌmplɪs/
/əˈkɑːmplɪs/
- a person who helps another to commit a crime or to do something wrong
- She became his unwitting accomplice in the robbery.
- an accomplice to murder
- The police suspect that he had an accomplice.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- willing
- unwitting
- alleged
- …
- accomplice in
- accomplice to
Word Originmid 16th cent.: alteration (probably by association with accompany) of Middle English complice ‘an associate’, via Old French from late Latin complex, complic- ‘allied’, from com- ‘together’ + the root of plicare ‘to fold’.