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English. Accomplice is a 1946 American thriller film directed by Walter Colmes and starring Richard Arlen, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Dugan, and Archie Twitchell. The film, from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), was shot in four days. The film is written by Frank Gruber, based on his novel Simon Lash, Private Detective .
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First attested in 1550. From a complice, from Old French complice (“confederate”), from Latin complicāre (“fold together”). The article a became part of the word, through the influence of the word accomplish.
(UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɒm.plɪs/, /ə.ˈkʌm.plɪs/(US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkɑm.pləs/, /ə.ˈkɑm.plɪs/Hyphenation: ac‧com‧pliceaccomplice (plural accomplices) 1. (law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. 1.1. 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...
Complicity is the participation in a completed criminal act of an accomplice, a partner in the crime who aids or encourages other perpetrators of that crime, and who shared with them an intent to act to complete the crime.
Definition of accomplice noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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noun. plural accomplices. Britannica Dictionary definition of ACCOMPLICE. [count] : a person who works with or helps someone who is doing something wrong or illegal. He was convicted as an accomplice to murder. a murderer's accomplice. She was an unwitting accomplice to tax fraud. [=she didn't know that she was helping someone to commit tax ...
noun. ac· com· plice ə-ˈkäm-pləs, -ˈkəm-. : one who intentionally and voluntarily participates with another in a crime by encouraging or assisting in the commission of the crime or by failing to prevent it though under a duty to do so. the accomplice of the burglar. an accomplice in a robbery.
