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Collude   /kəlˈud/   Listen
Collude

verb
(past & past part. colluded; pres. part. colluding)
1.
Act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose.  Synonym: conspire.






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"Collude" Quotes from Famous Books



... countercharge against the petitioner, and the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1860 provided the machinery for guaranteeing these bars to divorce. This question of collusion is discussed by G.P. Bishop (op. cit., vol. ii, Ch. IX). "However just a cause may be," Bishop remarks, "if parties collude in its management, so that in real fact both parties are plaintiffs, while by the record the one appears as plaintiff and the other as defendant, it cannot go forward. All conduct of this sort, disturbing to the course of justice, falls within ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... Moscow)—a fact for which we are thankful as often as we think of it. Pil. (surely Tilawe cannot be pronounced Garlic?) managed to get the king's head into Chancery, and then fibbed him. Why Major-General M'Dowall (then commanding our forces) should collude with Pil Garlic, is past our understanding. But so it was. Pil. said that a certain prince, collaterally connected with the royal house, by name Mootto Sawme, who had fled to our protection, was, or might be thought to be, the lawful king. Upon which the British general proclaimed him. What ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various



Words linked to "Collude" :   conspire, collusive, collusion, interact



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