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For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
Chris Pine

Meaning of "collusion" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COLLUSION

From Latin collūsiō, from collūdere to collude.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COLLUSION

collusion  [kəˈluːʒən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLLUSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Collusion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLLUSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Collusion

Collusion is an agreement between two or more parties, sometimes illegal and therefore secretive, to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically by defrauding or gaining an unfair advantage. It is an agreement among firms or individuals to divide a market, set prices, limit production or limit opportunities. It can involve "wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding parties". In legal terms, all acts effected by collusion are considered void.

Definition of collusion in the English dictionary

The definition of collusion in the dictionary is secret agreement for a fraudulent purpose; connivance; conspiracy. Other definition of collusion is a secret agreement between opponents at law in order to obtain a judicial decision for some wrongful or improper purpose.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLLUSION


allusion
əˈluːʒən
conclusion
kənˈkluːʒən
delusion
dɪˈluːʒən
disillusion
ˌdɪsɪˈluːʒən
elusion
ɪˈluːʒən
exclusion
ɪkˈskluːʒən
fusion
ˈfjuːʒən
illusion
ɪˈluːʒən
inclusion
ɪnˈkluːʒən
inconclusion
ˌɪnkənˈkluːʒən
interclusion
ˌɪntəˈkluːʒən
malocclusion
ˌmæləˈkluːʒən
nonconclusion
ˌnɒnkənˈkluːʒən
noninclusion
ˌnɒnɪnˈkluːʒən
occlusion
əˈkluːʒən
pollusion
pəˈluːʒən
preclusion
prɪˈkluːʒən
prolusion
prəˈluːʒən
reclusion
rɪˈkluːʒən
seclusion
sɪˈkluːʒən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLLUSION

colloquist
colloquium
colloquize
colloquy
collotype
collotypic
collotypy
colluctation
collude
colluder
collusive
collusively
colluvia
colluvial
colluvies
colluvium
colly
collyria
collyrium
collywobbles

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLLUSION

blood transfusion
cold fusion
commission
diffusion
effusion
extrusion
in conclusion
infusion
intrusion
optical illusion
perfusion
profusion
protrusion
pultrusion
Rediffusion
refusion
self-delusion
social exclusion
social inclusion
suffusion
transfusion

Synonyms and antonyms of collusion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COLLUSION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «collusion» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of collusion

Translation of «collusion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLLUSION

Find out the translation of collusion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of collusion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «collusion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

勾结
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confabulación
570 millions of speakers

English

collusion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मिलीभगत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التواطؤ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сговор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

conluio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাজশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

collusion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kolusi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

geheime Absprache
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

癒着
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결탁
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kolusi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thông đồng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உள்கூட்டுக்களை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिलन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hile
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

collusione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

змова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coluziune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπαιγνία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

samespanning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

samverkan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sammensvergelser
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of collusion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLUSION»

The term «collusion» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.346 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLUSION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «collusion» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «collusion» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about collusion

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9 QUOTES WITH «COLLUSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word collusion.
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Kate Bernheimer
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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Foster Friess
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Robin Marantz Henig
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
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William H. Macy
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
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Pauline Marois
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.
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Daniel Ortega
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
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Chris Pine
For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
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Hedi Slimane
I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That's what I've always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.
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Ralph Steadman
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLLUSION»

Discover the use of collusion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to collusion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Collusion
GARRY FEGAN: the former hit man is hiding out in New York, having cut all ties wiht his old life.
Stuart Neville, 2010
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Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam
The updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East.
Mark Curtis, 2011
3
Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone
A comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone.
David Keen, 2005
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The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings
The narratives offer an engaging entrée to the more rigorous economic discussion that follows. The book is accessible to any reader who understands basic economic reasoning. Mathematical material is flagged with asterisks.
Robert C. Marshall, Leslie M. Marx, 2012
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Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to ...
Collision and Collusion is the first book to explain where the Western dollars intended to aid Eastern Europe went, and why they did so little to help.
Janine R. Wedel, 2001
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Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror
In a Woodward and Bernstein-style expos, Italian reporters Bonini and D'Avanzo broke a political story that, at first, seemed harmless but eventually resulted in an all-out manipulation of the war on terror.
Carlo Bonini, Giuseppe D'Avanzo, 2007
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Collusion
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Thomas Cobb, 2010
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Couples in Collusion: Short-term, Assessment-based ...
In its clear, precise prose, insightful case studies, and thought-provoking discussion questions, Couples in Collusion lays out guidelines for identifying, understanding, and, dealing with the unspoken agreements and collusive systems that ...
Dennis A. Bagarozzi, 2012
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Cartels and Economic Collusion: The Persistence of Corporate ...
This well-documented book reviews the economic case against corporate collusion, as well as the arguments made for a more permissive attitude.
Michael A. Utton, 2011
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Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global ...
This is a 'must read' in graduate and undergraduate courses that focus on institutions and development.
Hilton L. Root, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLLUSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term collusion is used in the context of the following news items.
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Passengers sue airlines over allegations of price collusion
"This action challenges a collusion among major airlines to limit routes, information and available seats to keep airfares artificially high," the ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
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So what if your porn is feminist? The collusion of feminism with …
Rather than changing pornography for the better, the misguided and tokenistic idea of 'feminist porn' is being used to legitimise the lack of ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
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Delta, American, United & Southwest Face Passenger Lawsuits …
“This action challenges a collusion among major airlines to limit routes, information and available seats to keep airfares artificially high,” the ... «The Consumerist, Jul 15»
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'No evidence of collusion' in Exxon pollution deal, state's lawyers say
"There is no evidence of collusion between the Department and ExxonMobil." Further, they said, Lesniak and the environmental groups failed ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
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Opinion: High Hurdle For Airline Collusion Investigators
"Opinion: High Hurdle For Airline Collusion Investigators " is part of the new Aviation Week & Space Technology subscription, now available ... «Aviation Week, Jul 15»
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Accusations of Collusion at WSOP Sit-and-Gos
It's been a weekend full of poker-related drama on Twitter. Saturday night, Jack Salter posted a photo of Melanie Weisner and Dylan Wilkerson ... «PartTimePoker News, Jul 15»
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Taiwan Business Collusion Said To Endure Three Years After AU's …
Like the Sherman Act, the TFTA prohibits collusion among competitors, including agreements to raise or maintain prices, lower production or ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
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The Justice Department is investigating charges of widespread …
Now that four carriers control 85 percent of domestic routes, 'collusion' is a thought that's constantly going to be in the back of the minds of ... «Dispatch Times, Jul 15»
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Airline collusion: it's nothing new and will be difficult to prove …
“It's de facto collusion,” said Charles Leocha, president of Travelers United, a consumer advocacy group. “Flights are full, and the airlines have ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Airline collusion or not, competition in nose-dive
To be clear, no one seems to suspect the kind of collusion in which titans of industry secretly agree to carve up a market rather than compete, ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»

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