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Meaning of complicity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing
  2. The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
    countable, uncountable
  3. Complexity.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
  4. Complexity
  5. Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime.
  6. the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing.
  7. the fact or condition of being an accomplice, esp in a criminal act
  8. a less common word for complexity
  9. n → Mittäterschaft f → (in bei)
    n

Equivalents

Examples

“He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank.”
“How easy is it, on the other hand, to an enlightened teacher, particularly in the beginning, to elucidate the various forms of rhythm by methodical arrangement in respect of simplicity and increasing complicity or mixture!”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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