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# confederate

«confederate» in Mova's school dictionary: **a helper who works secretly with someone else, usually in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (confederates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A confederate is a helper who works secretly with someone else, usually in a trick or a plot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confederate/#m1)

2) (old use) A confederate is a partner or ally in a shared cause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confederate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, a helper who works with a performer or a villain in a trick, often out of sight of the audience or the victim

### examples

- The magician's confederate hid behind the curtain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confederate/#x1)
- Two confederates whispered the answer to him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confederate/#x2)
- The robber waited at the gate for his confederate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confederate/#x3)
- A confederate of the conjuror pretended to be a member of the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confederate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; a confederate is one person, so each one adds one to a count of people.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «confederate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confederate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.