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Collusion

Collusion Definition And Meaning |
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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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