noun
- one who aids or encourages another in wrongdoing
Usage: legal
Examples
- The court charged him as an abetter in the fraud scheme.
- She was considered an abetter for providing the getaway car.
- The law treats abetters as seriously as the main perpetrators.
- Police arrested both the thief and his abetter.
- An abetter can face the same penalties as the primary offender.
- The prosecutor argued that silence made him an abetter to the crime.