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Collaborate vs Accomplice - What's the difference?

collaborate | accomplice |

As a verb collaborate

is to work together with others to achieve a common goal.

As a noun accomplice is

(rare) a cooperator.

collaborate

English

Verb

(collaborat)
  • To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
    • Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.
  • To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
    • If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.

    See also

    * collaborator * collaboration

    References

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    accomplice

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A cooperator.
  • * Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices ! - Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, V-ii
  • (legal) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
  • * And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason. - Johnson
  • * Suspected for accomplice to the fire. -

    • Usage notes

    * Followed by with'' or ''of'' before a person and by ''in'' (or sometimes ''of'') before the crime; as, A was an ''accomplice'' with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with ''to before a thing.

    Synonyms

    * abettor, accessory, assistant, associate, confederate, coadjutor, ally, promoter; see abettor.