ABET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of abet in English

(Definition of abet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of abet from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of abet

abet
Even more widespread was the consumption of things that aided and abetted conversable sociability.
In essence, this could be seen as condoning and abetting "teenage" pregnancy - which is culturally and professionally discouraged.
In these circumstances, physicians can play a crucial role if they choose to abet draft evasion.
Will prescribing and dispensing such pills constitute "aiding and abetting"?
Such globalization increases poverty, malnutrition, starvation, sometimes abets the drug trade, in some places increases illiteracy and increases either joblessness or marginal employment.
There is no doubt of his attraction to the power of flamenco, whose representations oijouissance his camera continually abets with dramatic angles and dancing movements.
A war of words and definitions erupted between the two factions, aided and abetted by the jazz press.
We cater for human well-being by ambitiously overcoming, rather than abetting, what otherwise would happen naturally and to our disadvantage.
In fact, he denounced those intellectuals who turned themselves into servants of a monarchy and thereby aided and abetted an oppressive social and political order.
This cycle is probably due to recurrent depression that is abetted by lack of a social support network.
This uncertainty has doubtless abetted the quantity of literature on the subject.
Gaming the system is close to abetting draft evasion with one significant difference.
In response, we surmise that some physicians who abet draft evasion are answering to a higher moral principle that transcends both the law and bioethics.
The transaction costs of security reform also abetted growing crime.
Yet, it was argued not only that the history of the world vindicated this position but that the very construction of the universe aided and abetted it.
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Translations of abet

in Chinese (Traditional)
教唆,唆使,慫恿, 夥同…作案…
in Chinese (Simplified)
教唆,唆使,怂恿, 伙同…作案…
in Spanish
secundar, incitar, instigar…
in Portuguese
ser cúmplice de, colaborar…
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in Polish
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in Ukrainian
inciter (à)…
arka vermek, teşvik etmek…
helpen…
podporovat, navádět…
tilskynde, opmuntre…
menghasut…
ให้กำลังใจ…
tiếp tay…
wspomagać…
medverka till, vara medhjälpare…
bersubahat…
unterstützen, Beihilfe leisten…
oppmuntre til (gale handlinger)…
підбурювати…
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/əˈbiː.di.əns/
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the fact that people or animals do what they are told to do

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