Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An often secret action taken by two or more parties to achieve an illegal or improper purpose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Secret agreement for a fraudulent or harmful purpose; a secret or crafty understanding for unworthy purposes.
- noun Specifically, in law, a secret understanding between two or more persons to act or proceed as if adversely or at. variance with, or in apparent defiance of, one another's rights, in order to prejudice a third person or to obtain a remedy which could not as well be obtained by open concurrence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
secret agreement for anillegal purpose ;conspiracy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun secret agreement
- noun agreement on a secret plot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As news about the memo spread, critics of Hall and the school board quickly denounced what they described as collusion between the district and the chamber.
ajc.com - News 2010
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As news about the memo spread, critics of Hall and the school board quickly denounced what they described as collusion between the district and the chamber.
ajc.com - News 2010
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Last week the superpower-defying website, in collusion with unknown U.S. military personnel, posted 391,832 field reports from Iraq -- SIGACTs, in military-speak, or significant actions in the war -- including the checkpoint incident above.
Robert Koehler: Defying a Superpower Robert Koehler 2010
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I married and had a child early, my job was extremely taxing, and I was certainly in collusion with all the demands that rained down.
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Last week the superpower-defying website, in collusion with unknown U.S. military personnel, posted 391,832 field reports from Iraq -- SIGACTs, in military-speak, or significant actions in the war -- including the checkpoint incident above.
Robert Koehler: Defying a Superpower Robert Koehler 2010
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That Bella was in collusion with the Indian, and that Borg was to be murdered.
CHAPTER 29 2010
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'You have public officials in collusion, practicing an illegal act that costs taxpayers money,' McDonough said in an interview Tuesday.
First Click, Maryland:Fact-checking Rep. Kratovil's claim on tax hike Aaron C. Davis 2010
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Farmers are serfs, working for the brokers, who set prices in collusion with the Feds and Agribusiness suppliers.
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What you have here is, you have public officials ... in collusion, practicing an illegal act that costs the taxpayers money.
GOP lawmaker asks whether Montgomery College is breaking law Daniel de Vise 2010
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These are vicious lies started by the coal and oil companies in collusion with the Bush Administration.
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"How is Palestine best defended? Is it by staying on the land, even if that staying involves collusion with the enemy to the extent that work must be sought in Israel for survival?" --Miriam Cooke, Arab Women Writers.
September 9, 2012