accessory

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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From Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

For $10,000 to become accessory to a crime! — Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude, Austin Bidwell
"He will be accessory to the crime," she sobbed. — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend
I could get accessory and five years for just listening to this." — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover

accoutrement, accouterment

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