Entry Word: abettor

Function: noun

Meaning:

also abetter

1 one associated with another in wrongdoing <the man who drove the getaway car in the bank robbery was arrested as an aider and abettor> — see accomplice
2 someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support <without all the neighborhood kids as abettors, I would never have gotten all my chickens back in their coop> — see ally