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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collusion" Quotes from Famous Books

... to tell him what I thought of it. To me it was the most barefaced, shameless piece of imposture that I had ever witnessed. The collusion and the signal ...

— The Parasite • Arthur Conan Doyle

... was in collusion with Mrs. Johnson, keeping the secret from the woman he loved, but if there should ...

— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas

... not a matter of wealth but of justice: the wealthy and the poor alike now only require a clear case and "no collusion." ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... been such occupier as aforesaid, shall apply to any Board of Guardians for relief as a destitute poor person, it shall not be lawful for such Guardians to grant such relief, until they shall be satisfied that such person has, bona fide, and without collusion, absolutely parted with and surrendered any right or title which he may have had to the occupation of any land over and above such extent as aforesaid, of one quarter of a statute acre." So that by this carefully prepared clause, the head of a family who happened to hold a single ...

— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke

... as the swan and thick golden hair, which now shone with strange splendor in the firelight. Orion had remarked her before his journey, and fascinated by the beauty of the Persian girl, had wished to have her for his own. Servants and officials, in unscrupulous collusion, had managed to transport her to a country-house belonging to the Mukaukas on the other side of the Nile, and there Orion had been able to visit her undisturbed as often as fancy prompted him. The slave-girl, scarcely yet sixteen, ignorant and unprotected, ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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