'Collusion' definitions:
Definition of 'collusion'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Collusion'
From: GCIDE
- Collusion \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. [1913 Webster]
- The foxe, maister of collusion. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'collusion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- artifice,
- association,
- bipartisanship,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- co-working,
- 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,
- 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