Conspiracy

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  • noun. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
  • noun. A group of conspirators.
  • noun. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
  • noun. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An ancient writ which was issued against parties alleged to be guilty of a conspiracy to indict a party for treason or a felony.
  • noun. A combination of persons for an evil purpose; an agreement between two or more persons to commit in concert something reprehensible, injurious, or illegal; particularly, a combination to commit treason, or excite sedition or insurrection; a plot; concerted treason.
  • noun. Hence Any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.
  • noun. Synonyms Intrigue, cabal, machination.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A combination of people for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
  • noun. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
  • noun. An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
  • noun. A group of ravens.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
  • noun. a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
  • noun. a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act