English-German translations for accessory

• Accessoire das
• akzessorisch
• Apparat der
• begleitend
• Beihilfe die
  Herr Präsident! Die westliche Politik in Sachen Kosovo ist Beihilfe zum Mord. Mr President, western policy with regard to Kosovo is an accessory to murder.
  Exporterstattungen, also Subventionen für den Export von Lebendvieh, sind Beihilfe zur Tierquälerei. Export refunds, subsidies for the export of live cattle, are an accessory to animal suffering.
• Helfershelfer der
• Komplize der
  Bestenfalls ist es ihr Komplize und schlimmstenfalls ihr Spiegel. In the best scenario law is an accessory to history, in the worst, a reflection of it.
• nebensächlich
• Zubehör das
• zusätzlich
• Zutat die

Definition of accessory

• Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or being contributory. Said of people and things, and, when of people, usually in a bad sense
• Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself
• Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment
• An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves
• A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator

Examples

• She was accessory to the riot
• accessory sounds in music
• the accessories of a mobile phone

Related words

• accessory fruit
• accessory mineral
• accessory after the fact
• accessory before the fact
• accessory nerve
• accessory shoe
• accessory organ
• accessory agreement
• accessory cavity