About The Word Conspiracy
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Conspiracy
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What's The Definition Of Conspiracy?
[n] a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
[n] a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act [n] a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose Synonyms | Synonyms for Conspiracy: cabal | confederacy | confederacy Related Terms | Find terms related to Conspiracy: accompaniment | accordance | addition | affiliation | agglomeration | aggregation | agreement | alliance | amalgamation | Anschluss | art | artful dodge | artifice | assimilation | association | blend | blending | blind | cabal | cahoots | cartel | centralization | chicane | chicanery | coaction | coalescence | coalition | coincidence | collaboration | collectivity | collusion | combination | combine | combined effort | combo | complicity | complot | composition | concert | concerted action | concomitance | concordance | concourse | concurrence | confederacy | confederation | confluence | congeries | conglomeration | conjugation | conjunction | conn | connivance | connivery | consilience | consolidation | contrivance | contriving | cooperation | correspondence | counterplot | coup | covin | co-working | craft | cute trick | deceit | deep-laid plot | design | device | dirty work | disloyalty | dodge | dodgery | ecumenism | embodiment | encompassment | engineering | enosis | expedient | faithlessness | fakement | falsity | federalization | federation | feint | fetch | finagling | finesse | foul play | frame-up | fusion | gambit | game | gimmick | grift | hookup | inclusion | incorporation | integration | intrigue | jugglery | junction | junta | knavery | league | little game | machination | maneuver | maneuvering | manipulation | marriage | meld | melding | merger | move | package | package deal | parasitism | perfidiousness | perfidy | pettifoggery | pettifogging | plot | plotting | ploy | practice | racket | red herring | rigging | ruse | saprophytism | scheme | schemery | scheming | sedition | sharp practice | shift | simultaneity | skulduggery | sleight | solidification | stratagem | strategy | subterfuge | supercherie | symbiosis | synchronism | syncretism | syndication | syneresis | synergy | synthesis | tactic | tie-up | treacherousness | treachery | treason | trick | trickery | underhand dealing | underplot | unification | union | united action | web of intrigue | wedding | wile | wily device | wire-pulling See Also | agreement | band | circle | coconspirator | conspiracy of silence | conspirator | Gunpowder Plot | lot | machinator | plot | plotter | secret plan | set | understanding Conspiracy In Webster's Dictionary \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. {Conspiracies}. [See
{Conspiration}.]
1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement,
between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert,
as treason; a plot.
When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to
point. --Chaucer.
They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah]. --2 Kings
xiv. 19.
I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. --Shak.
2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to
one event, as if by agreement.
A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
3. (Law) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds,
by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful
act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful;
confederacy.
Syn: Combination; plot; cabal.
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