conspire

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Plotting & trapping
be in league with someoneidiom
cahoots
catch someone out
chemtrail
chicanery
conspiracy theorist
conspiracy theory
conspirator
conspire
entrap
insinuate
outplot
plotter
ploy
pretext
pretextual
put-up job
sting
what's your game?idiom
wheeze

collude | Business English

collude
verb[ I ]
uk /kəˈluːd/us
LAW
to do something secret or illegal with another person, company, etc. in order to deceive people:
collude with sbHe is accusing the administration of colluding with industry to stall the state's strict vehicle-emissions standards.

Examples of collude

collude
We learn from both these songs how the two female artists have colluded with modern technology in production techniques to forge new cyber-identities for themselves.
However, this method does not work if most agents lie about the reports or if they collude in giving false reports.
Firstly, it is sometimes possible to engineer the protocol of interaction such that the participating agents find no gain in utility by lying or colluding.
Only on occasion does it see fit to collude with other theatrical resources to a common dramaturgical end.
The text colludes in its own ' ' collapse' ' into postmodern heterogeneity.
For instance, in auctions we would like to prevent participants from colluding and forming rings.
System administrators trust users to keep system passwords secret, and, as well, trust that their users will not collude.
With communication on the side, the buyers can collude against the seller by agreeing on bidding very low.
This clearly creates an opportunity for the inspector and firm to engage in corrupt behavior by colluding and underreporting true emission levels.
It is suggested that these children are socialised into accepting poverty and powerlessness and implicitly collude with the inevitability of continuing disadvantage.
More important, even if states attempted to protect employer collusion, they had no authority to protect colluding employers from predatory rivals outside the state's jurisdiction.
If there is little outside monitoring by voters, opponents or other parts of civil society, leaders can collude with the rank-and-file to share corrupt rents.
He questions the distinction between subsistence and commerce while offering examples of poachers turned gamekeepers and gamekeepers colluding with poachers.
The work may offer us a reminder that, despite opera's 'expressionist' poetics, the genre can occasionally collude with characters' determination to remain unreadable.
Patrons and painters colluded to emphasize domestic virtues and overlay the realities of daily familial life with images that suggested ideal intimacy and affection.
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