conspirator

/kənˈspɪrədər/

Other forms: conspirators

A conspirator sneaks around making plans to commit crimes with other people. A conspirator’s plans are often politically motivated, and not always illegal but always secret and sneaky.

You know how some people think that the Apollo moon landing was a hoax or that everything is controlled by alien lizard people? No? Well, people who see secret plots everywhere believe in conspiracies, and anyone involved in a conspiracy is a conspirator. However, many conspirators are real and part of everyday plots, like to rob a bank. All conspirators work in secret to commit crimes. Any crime involving more than one person will have conspirators.

Definitions of conspirator

1. noun

   a member of a conspiracy
   synonyms: coconspirator, machinator, plotter

   examples:

   Guy Fawkes

   English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)

   Titus Oates

   English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)

   type of:

   criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw

   someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime