collude

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col·lude | \ kə-ˈlüd

colluded; colluding; colludes

Definition of collude

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

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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 But some experts worry that, without careful checks, these programs might inadvertently learn to discriminate against minority groups and possibly collude to artificially inflate prices. — Ethan Wilk, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022 Watson escaped criminal charges last week, but 22 women didn’t collude and come up with the same story. — Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2022 What Mueller found was that there wasn’t an express agreement between Trump’s campaign and the Russians to collude in hopes of getting Trump elected. — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022 The case adds to a growing body of evidence that spyware has been used widely in Mexico to undercut political opponents, human rights activists and journalists, as well as monitor the loyalty of certain allies and even collude with drug cartels. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022 After the 1981 strike, which cost 713 games, and a brief strike in 1985, owners illegally conspired to collude against free agents. — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022 Those seeking to deny those rights to others, let alone to collude with foreign governments in repressing them, will need to pursue their education elsewhere. — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021 The Mueller report said there wasn't evidence of a criminal conspiracy to collude. — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021 The news now is that cartel members don’t seem that eager to collude with him. — James Freeman, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2021 See More

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