Crossword clues for collusion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion.
--Atterbury.By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive.
--Swift. -
(Law) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
--Bouvier. Abbott.Syn: Collusion, Connivance.
Usage: A person who is guilty of connivance intentionally overlooks, and thus sanctions what he was bound to prevent. A person who is guilty of collusion unites with others (playing into their hands) for fraudulent purposes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy.
WordNet
n. secret agreement
agreement on a secret plot [syn: connivance]
Wikipedia
Collusion is an agreement between two or more parties, sometimes illegal and therefore secretive, to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically by defrauding or gaining an unfair market advantage. It is an agreement among firms or individuals to divide a market, set prices, limit production or limit opportunities. It can involve "wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding parties". In legal terms, all acts effected by collusion are considered void.
Collusion is the limited debut EP by British metalcore supergroup This Is Menace.
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 group
- Collusion (software), later called Lightbeam, an experimental add-on for Firefox and Google Chrome
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.