collude

verb

col·lude kə-ˈlüd

colluded; colluding; colludes

Synonyms of collude next

intransitive verb

: to work together secretly especially in order to do something illegal or dishonest : conspire, plot

It was arithmetically possible, too, for a handful of senators … to collude with the president to approve a treaty betraying some vital interest to a foreign power.—

Jack N. Rakove

… the travails of the world's two biggest art-auction businesses, … rivals that now stand accused by the U.S. Justice Department of colluding to rig the auction market by fixing their sales-commission rates.—

Robert Hughes

… argues that while the kids are not entitled to collective representation, major universities are permitted to collude to prevent players from being paid for their work.—

David Sirota

Examples of collude in a Sentence

The two companies had colluded to fix prices. accused of colluding to block the sale of the vacant land

Recent Examples on the Web In every single country in Latin America, officials at all levels collude with the drug trade. —

Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023 Here's what the world loses Songs and slogans perceived as linked to the protests were outlawed, memories of past protests scrubbed from the internet, sensitive films censored and newspaper editors charged with sedition and colluding with foreign forces. —

Chris Lau, CNN, 3 Nov. 2023 As Comer tells it, then-VP Biden 'colluded' with this business by ... —

Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023 The original plaintiffs in the case were the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who accused the White House, D.H.S., and the F.B.I. of colluding with Meta and Twitter to police the speech of conservatives on their platforms. —

Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023 The police said the theaters colluded with distributors to exaggerate ticket sales for at least 323 films over the past five years, delivering false information to the Korean Film Council, the government-run body responsible for collecting local box office data. —

Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2023 Since the beginning of the year, Republicans in Congress have escalated the pressure on tech companies to take a hands-off approach to misinformation, opening an investigation into long-running allegations that the industry is biased and colluding with Democrats to censor their views online. —

Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023 Amazingly, the Justice Department sued Apple and the publishers for colluding to fix prices. —

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 Over a decade ago, the DOJ sued the company for illegally colluding with financial software company Intuit by allegedly refusing to hire its employees. —

Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023 See More

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