Usually means: Assists criminal after crime committed.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. accessory after the fact: Merriam-Webster
  2. accessory after the fact: Vocabulary.com
  3. accessory after the fact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. accessory after the fact: Wiktionary
  5. accessory after the fact: Dictionary.com
  6. Accessory after the fact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. accessory after the fact: Rhymezone
  8. accessory after the fact: FreeDictionary.org
  9. accessory after the fact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. accessory after the fact: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. accessory after the fact: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. accessory after the fact: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accessory after the fact: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. accessory after the fact: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. accessory after the fact: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (accessory after the fact)

▸ noun:  (law) An individual who assists someone who has committed a crime so as to protect them from legal prosecution.

Similar:
particeps criminis, accessoryship, accessaryship, excuse, attribution, affirmative defense, qui tam, amicus curiae, prosecution association, theftboot, more...

Opposite:
principal, perpetrator, accomplice

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Similar:
particeps criminis, accessoryship, accessaryship, excuse, attribution, affirmative defense, qui tam, amicus curiae, prosecution association, theftboot, more...

Opposite:
principal, perpetrator, accomplice



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