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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.

Collusion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Collusion?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Collusion: connivance

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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