CEFR C1
complicit
Translation
加担している / 共犯的な / 黙認して責任がある
Meaning
Complicit describes a person or organization that knowingly helps, permits, or shares responsibility for wrongdoing. It does not just mean present at the scene. The usual pattern is complicit in a crime, cover-up, abuse, or deception.
Examples
- 管理職は不正を知っていながら止めず、隠蔽に加担していました。
The managers were complicit in the cover-up because they knew and did nothing. - その会社は取引先の労働搾取に加担していると非難されました。
The company was accused of being complicit in its supplier's labor abuses.