Usually means: Encouraging or assisting in wrongdoing.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. abetting: Merriam-Webster
  2. abetting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abetting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abetting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Abetting, abetting: Wordnik
  6. abetting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. abetting: Wiktionary
  8. abetting: Dictionary.com
  9. abetting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Abetting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Abetting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Abetting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. abetting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. abetting: FreeDictionary.org
  15. abetting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abetting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abetting: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abetting: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abetting)

▸ noun:  The act of one who abets.

Similar:
abettance, aiding, art and part, abiding, avouchment, suborning, accomplicity, enablement, fosterment, assist, more...

Opposite:
abetment, abet

Types:
encouraging, assisting, helping, supporting, fostering, promoting, cheering, more...

Phrases:
Aiding and abetting, more...

Adjectives:
previous, subsequent, unjustifiable, french, present, solid



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Similar:
abettance, aiding, art and part, abiding, avouchment, suborning, accomplicity, enablement, fosterment, assist, more...

Opposite:
abetment, abet

Types:
encouraging, assisting, helping, supporting, fostering, promoting, cheering, more...

Phrases:
Aiding and abetting, more...

Adjectives:
previous, subsequent, unjustifiable, french, present, solid



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