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noun

Collusion n.

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." "That they (miracles) be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion." "By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive."

(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.

Synonyms: Collusion, Connivance. 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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Etymology of 'Collusion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collusion" Quotes from Famous Books

... collusion' but 'an exchange' of ideas. It is well to hear what other people have to say on a number of subjects. I do not wish to be always respiring the same confined atmosphere, but to vary the scene, and get a little relief and fresh air out of doors. Do all we can to shake it ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

... followed the remark. It was getting rather cheap to Ned. The collusion between the two was so evident that their attempts to conceal it appeared ...

— Boy Scouts in an Airship • G. Harvey Ralphson

... seem that an accusation is not rendered unjust by calumny, collusion or evasion. For according to Decret. II, qu. iii [*Append. Grat. ad can. Si quem poenituerit.], "calumny consists in falsely charging a person with a crime." Now sometimes one man falsely accuses another of a crime ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... reconciling of it with our general notions that we shall find most difficulty, and not in accepting for true a story which is so fully proved, and that not by one witness but by a dozen, all respectable, and with no possibility of collusion between them. ...

— Lady Into Fox • David Garnett

... prisoners to bail collusively. This statute 'was, in fact, the origin of the preliminary inquiry, which has come to be in practice one of the most important and characteristic parts of our whole system of procedure, but it was originally intended to guard against collusion between the justices and the prisoners brought before them.'—Stephen's History, vol. ...

— State Trials, Political and Social - Volume 1 (of 2) • Various

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