Usually means: Assists crime planning, not present.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word accessory before the fact:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. accessory before the fact: Merriam-Webster
  2. accessory before the fact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accessory before the fact: Vocabulary.com
  4. accessory before the fact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. accessory before the fact: Wiktionary
  6. accessory before the fact: Dictionary.com
  7. Accessory before the fact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. accessory before the fact: Rhymezone
  9. accessory before the fact: FreeDictionary.org
  10. accessory before the fact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. accessory before the fact: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (accessory before the fact)

▸ noun:  (law) One who commands or counsels an actionable offense, not being present at its commission.

Similar:
accessary before the fact, anteact, antecedency, antefact, foreordainer, anticipator, malice aforethought, antecedent, precharge, antecessor, more...

Opposite:
co-conspirator

Types:
accomplice, conspirator, aider and abettor, more...

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Similar:
accessary before the fact, anteact, antecedency, antefact, foreordainer, anticipator, malice aforethought, antecedent, precharge, antecessor, more...

Opposite:
co-conspirator

Types:
accomplice, conspirator, aider and abettor, more...



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