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confederates

noun

Meaning

  1. A member of a confederacy.
  2. An accomplice in a plot.
  3. An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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