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Collusion

Collusion Meaning & Definition
Collusion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Collusion?

[n] secret agreement
[n] agreement on a secret plot

Synonyms | Synonyms for Collusion: connivance

Related Terms | Find terms related to Collusion: accompaniment | accordance | agreement | alliance | artifice | association | bipartisanship | cabal | cahoots | chicane | chicanery | coaction | coadjuvancy | coadministration | coagency | cochairmanship | codirectorship | coincidence | collaboration | collaborativeness | collectivism | collectivity | combination | combined effort | commensalism | common effort | common enterprise | communalism | communism | communitarianism | community | complicity | complot | concert | concerted action | concomitance | concord | concordance | concourse | concurrence | confederacy | confluence | conjunction | connivance | connivery | consilience | conspiracy | contrivance | contriving | cooperation | cooperativeness | correspondence | counterplot | covin | co-working | deep-laid plot | dodgery | duet | duumvirate | ecumenicalism | ecumenicism | ecumenism | engineering | esprit | esprit de corps | fellow feeling | fellowship | finagling | finesse | foul play | frame-up | game | harmony | intrigue | joining of forces | joint effort | joint operation | junction | little game | machination | maneuvering | manipulation | mass action | morale | mutual assistance | mutualism | mutuality | octet | parasitism | pettifoggery | pettifogging | plot | plotting | pooling | pooling of resources | pulling together | quartet | quintet | reciprocity | rigging | saprophytism | scheme | schemery | scheming | septet | sextet | sharp practice | simultaneity | skulduggery | sleight | solidarity | stratagem | supercherie | symbiosis | synchronism | synergism | synergy | team spirit | teamwork | trick | trickery | trio | triumvirate | troika | underhand dealing | underplot | union | united action | web of intrigue | wire-pulling

See Also | agreement | agreement | arrangement | cahoots

Collusion In Webster's Dictionary

\Col*lu"sion\, n. [L. collusio: cf. F. collusion. See {Collude}.] 1. 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. 2. (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.

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