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Definition
to conspire (the act of working together in secret at others' expense)- The antitrust department tries to prevent supermarket collusion to raise grocery prices.
collusion = to conspire (the act of working together in secret at others' expense)
- Go to their offices and show your pearl - or better, let them come here, so that you can see there is no collusion.John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
- There was collusion, sir, or that villain never would have escaped.Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
- They are both written in good faith, I have no doubt, and without any collusion.Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
- She's not in collusion with the matron.Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
- Tis true, indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.Shakespeare, William -- Love's Labour's Lost
- "They wouldn't expel you," I said easily "You're guilty of Willful Collusion at the very most.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- But: did Horst and Sascha collude to make painting vanish in the first place, to Frankfurt, with bad Miami deal?Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- Lucas of House Samos, for crimes against the crown, for collusion with the terrorist organization known as the Scarlet Guard, I declare you guilty.Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
- Collusion, corrupt practices, and gonorrhea.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- And so will our innocent children, for we are colluding when we allow these crimes to be committed.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- They are both written in good faith, I have no doubt, and without any collusion.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- His silence seemed like collusion in his fate.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- Inside collusion implies-Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Assassinated by the Vatican in collusion with Pepin d'Heristal.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- I mean, I'm happy that you two colluded on your story and that you weren't arrested, because that would have made your working here impossible.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- The Liberal Government (clearly by collusion) was beaten by the Conservatives, though the latter were nominally much in the minority.William Morris -- News from Nowhere
- Instead, women across the nation colluded in our degradation!Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- Sometimes I think they're in collusion.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
collusion = conspiracy