'Conspiracy' definitions:
Definition of 'conspiracy'
From: WordNet
noun
A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act [syn: conspiracy, confederacy]
noun
A plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) [syn: conspiracy, cabal]
noun
A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose [syn: conspiracy, confederacy]
Definition of 'Conspiracy'
From: GCIDE
- Conspiracy \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See Conspiration.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to point. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah]. --2 Kings xiv. 19. [1913 Webster]
- I had forgot that foul conspiracy
- Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. [1913 Webster]
- A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conspiracy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- co-working,
- 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,
- 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