conspirator
conspirator
Definition
con·spira·tor (kən spir′ət ər)
noun
a person who takes part in a conspiracy
Etymology: ME conspiratour < OFr < ML conspirator < pp. of L conspirare: see conspire
conspirator
Synonyms
conspirator
Law Definition
n
One who participates in a
conspiracy. Also called co-conspirator.
unindicted co-conspirator
One who is alleged to have participated in a conspiracy,
but is not indicted for the crime even though one or more fellow conspirators
are. Also called unindicted conspirator.
conspirator
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- try: On 1st May, 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered the formation of a nine-man military commission to try the conspirators.
- lead: But a group of conspirators led by Cassius is concerned by the total power that Caesar might acquire.
- know: It certainly was not unusual for the Gestapo to leave known conspirators alone and free from arrest - until they were needed.
- arrest: Amid rumors that officers intended to seize Richard at Whitehall, Major-General Howard offered to arrest the leading conspirators.
- betray: Rommel therefore did not betray conspirators who suggested to him that he should become head of state once Hitler was overthrown.
- survive: Fawkes was tried with the other surviving conspirators on 27 January 1606 and executed in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, on 31 January.
Preposition: in
- corner: Could this be the perfect opportunity for conspirators in the darker corners of Government to overhaul the organization?
- plot: In London, the trial opens of Alexander Hampden and five other conspirators in the royal plot to seize the City.
Adjective modifier
- Nazi: By these means the GESTAPO and the SD carried on the struggle of the Nazi conspirators against the Church.
- fellow: Unlike his fellow conspirators, Surratt obtained a civil rather than a military trial.
- alleged: Instead the US indictment stops at bin Laden and his alleged conspirators.
- other: Darius, with six other conspirators devised a way to break into the closed palace.
- leading: Amid rumors that officers intended to seize Richard at Whitehall, Major-General Howard offered to arrest the leading conspirators.
- chief: No, the chief conspirator in our own ranks is young Wesley's father.
Noun used with modifier
- underworld: When Oswald was picked up, Roselli suggested the underworld conspirators feared he would crack and disclose information that might lead to them.
- fellow-: Then the elevator snatched the vision aloft and the watcher fled away in joyful excitement, and rejoined the fellow- conspirator.
- co-: However, this did not prevent their reinvention of me as a co- conspirator.
- Co: A ' co conspirator is critical for knowing when things are and are not working.
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