Usually means: Ally or accomplice in scheme.
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  1. confederate: Merriam-Webster
  2. Confederate, confederate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confederate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confederate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Confederate, confederate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confederate, confederate: Wordnik
  7. confederate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Confederate, confederate: Wiktionary
  9. confederate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confederate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confederate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Confederate: Dictionary.com
  13. confederate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. confederate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Confederate (TV series), Confederate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Confederate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. confederate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. confederate: Rhymezone
  19. Confederate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. confederate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. confederate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. confederate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. confederate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. confederate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. confederate: Legal dictionary

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  1. confederate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Confederate: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. confederate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confederate (offensive): Racial Slur Database

(Note: See confederated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Confederate)

noun:  A member of a confederacy.
noun:  An accomplice in a plot.
noun:  (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
adjective:  Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
adjective:  Banded together; allied.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To combine in a confederacy.
adjective:  (historical) Of or relating to the Confederate States of America.
adjective:  (historical) Of or relating to the political movement in favour of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.
adjective:  (historical) Of or relating to Confederate Ireland or the Irish Confederate Wars.
noun:  (historical) A citizen of the Confederate States of America.
noun:  (historical) A supporter of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.
noun:  (historical) A supporter of Irish Catholic self-rule during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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