Definitions
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- noun one who helps or encourages or incites another
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Examples
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And their biggest aider and abettor is Ottawa itself.
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How much does a hostile nation such as Saudi Arabia need to do before it is deemed an "abettor" rather than an "ally"?
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What this is really about is a Republican effort to gin up sound-bites suitable to the morons watching FauxSnooze about how Obama is “soft on defense” (if not an outright aider and abettor of al Qaeda).
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A Libya in part or whole under the Gadhafi clan would be a failed, isolated and dangerous place ruled by a vengeful tyrant and a likely abettor of terrorists.
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Blair could have done so whenever he wished but opted to keep this master of ‘tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend’ in office until his last moment as ‘First Lord of the Treasury’ and thus is implicated in the Socialist excesses of the last ten years not as a mere aider and abettor but as a principal in the first degree.
Archive 2008-05-18 2008
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Blair could have done so whenever he wished but opted to keep this master of ‘tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend’ in office until his last moment as ‘First Lord of the Treasury’ and thus is implicated in the Socialist excesses of the last ten years not as a mere aider and abettor but as a principal in the first degree.
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If it is approved, it will then award the death penalty to any aider and abettor of a hijacking as well.
Indian Cabinet Approves Tougher Hijacking Law Arlene Chang 2010
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If it is approved, it will then award the death penalty to any aider and abettor of a hijacking as well.
Indian Cabinet Approves Tougher Hijacking Law Arlene Chang 2010
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If it is approved, it will then award the death penalty to any aider and abettor of a hijacking as well.
Indian Cabinet Approves Tougher Hijacking Law Arlene Chang 2010
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Some call me a sell out or, even worse, an abettor of dictators.
Tom Doctoroff: Books That Reveal China's Cultural Constitution 2009
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