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Word: accessory (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • legal Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself.
  • Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or being contributory. Said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was ''accessory'' to the riot; ''accessory'' sounds in music.

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Noun:

  • An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
  • fine arts Anything that enters into a work of art without being James Elmes
  • legal One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
  • That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate, an attachment

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