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Agreement on a secret plot
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collusion
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Collusion is an agreement, usually secretive, which occurs between two or more persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of legal rights. Collusion may also refer to: Collusion (EP) , a 2005 metalcore album Collusion Syndicate , a defunct special interest ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collusion \Col*lu"sion\, n. [L. collusio: cf. F. collusion. See Collude .] A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. --Spenser. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. secret agreement agreement on a secret plot [syn: connivance ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French collusion , from Latin collusionem (nominative collusio ) "act of colluding," from colludere , from com- "together" (see com- ) + ludere "to play," from ludus "game" (see ludicrous ). "The notion of fraud or underhandedness is ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE tacit ▪ We now consider what they imply for the analysis of tacit collusion . ▪ In respect of tacit collusion there is far less clarity. ▪ There will always be the problem of trying to infer whether apparently tacit ...
Usage examples of collusion.
That makes you culpable in the civil suit, Noblier, and, by virtue of the fact that you did not suspend Fourcade from the Bichon case after his obvious attempt to plant and manipulate evidence, you may well be guilty of collusion on the assault.
Now you are accusing the Monterrey Police Department of collusion with an enemy that has made itself manifest only to you, and of falsifying information.
He could offer to have people sent downland to act as look-outs, but he was far from certain as to how Nilsson might react to such a suggestion with its hint of collusion.
With the help of the Portuguese and the collusion of the minions of the English East India Company at Zanzibar, he has seized the great fort and all the Omani settlements and possessions along the Fever Coast.
Was the patrolman in collusion with this gang of bikers against the foolish foreigner?
Madame Lamberti, who was in collusion with the rascal, was not niggardly of her favours with the young Englishman.
Of course it was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the underwriters, but this was not so.
Perrot, former governor of Acadia, accuses both Meneval and the priest Petit of being in collusion with the English.
In fact, we were too uneasy to release each other from our mutual embrace in order to relax into sleep, and just uneasy enough to play one more round of the collusion game.
His cheeks were no longer that hot red shade that, in collusion with dark hair, had led people to think him Spanish in his youth.
Some humans hurled accusations and threats, hinted darkly of treachery and collusion between Sunbright and the Shadow Walkers.
Certainly it is in the explanation of the fact, and the reconciling of it with our general notions that we shall find most difficulty, and not in accepting for true a story which is so fully proved, and that not by one witness but by a dozen, all respectable, and with no possibility of collusion between them.
He made all kinds of wild allegations from Jack having bought off the judge to collusion between myself and the prosecutor.
Genial, brutal parents, up to their necks in collusion, determined on the rightness of their choices, in everything.
Tane at any time, we could accuse him of hiding treasonable information or of direct collusion with Gorlot.