collusive

collusion | American Dictionary

collusion
noun[ U ]
us/kəˈlu·ʒən/
agreement, esp. in secret for an illegal or dishonest reason:
The companies were accused of acting in collusion to fix prices.

collusion | Business English

collusion
noun[ U ]
 LAWuk /kəˈluːʒən/us
the act of doing something secret or illegal with another person, company, etc. in order to deceive people:
There have been allegations of collusion between/among fund managers.
An appraiser sometimes acts in collusion with a borrower and provides a misleading appraisal report to the lender.

Examples of collusion

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His main charge concerns their alleged collusion with non-academic interests to effect acceptable heritage results, politically, economically, (re)presentationally.
The ' quickening ' of local governance was exactly that : the consolidation of governance through local and central collusion.
This efficiency did of course also depend on considerable degrees of popular collusion and conformity, the extent of which should not be underestimated.
These stakeholders, sometimes independent of each other and sometimes through collusion, try to influence the revenue target and, thus, the actions of the tax collectors.
These arrangements, however, have frequently come under suspicion due to irregularities in procedural records and the opportunities for collusion over shipment quantities.
Practices of collusion between the state and business added further complications to the problems.
Several ways of escape were devised to avoid ceilings, in collusion with land reform officials and their political bosses.
This would be akin to collusion in markets, and would militate against the sort of socially beneficial research outcomes implied by analogies with wellfunctioning markets.
The best plays of the decade were most provocative when they represented terrible acts as psychological states, usually characterized by complicity and collusion.
This made probity harder to demonstrate, and blur red the line between collaboration and collusion.
This is more plausible when we relax the assumption of competition, and allow for collusion over research strategies between small numbers of polluting firms.
It is therefore necessary to consider the collusion between the colonial state and traditional patriarchal forms.
We should look at the role of money and funds within the partnerships; there is collusion and nepotism.
This benign neglect was probably intentional, as is argued below, since it facilitated a common coping strategy among inmates, namely, collusion with personnel.
The only hope for breaking the collusion between the two lies in the formation of alternative discourses.
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