Collusion

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  • noun. An often secret action taken by two or more parties to achieve an illegal or improper purpose.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. secret agreement
  • noun. agreement on a secret plot
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    agreement  arrangement  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    allusion  conclusion  confusion  contusion  delusion  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    artifice  betrayal  bribery  charlatanism  chicanery  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accompaniment  accordance  agreement  alliance  artifice  
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