collude
[kuh-lood]
- to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
- to conspire in a fraud.
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Origin of collude
1515–25; (< Middle French) < Latin collūdere to play together, equivalent to col- col-1 + lūdere to play
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Contemporary Examples
Question them, and you are colluding in exacerbating the awful effects of their trauma.
Whitehouse noted that Inhofe charged that government agencies had been “colluding” to peddle climate-change threats.
“The city and corporations are colluding to change the city in a very deliberate way,” he says.
The End of New York: How One Blog Tracks the Disappearance of a Vibrant CityTim Teeman
August 6, 2014
By restricting aid to only registered groups, the State Department is colluding with repressive regimes, fear democracy advocates.
This clown is proclaiming that we are colluding with the enemy to prolong our stay in Afghanistan.
Historical Examples
It would be to lose all chance of re-election for the official to cheat the public by colluding with the liquor sellers.
The Brothers' WarJohn Calvin Reed
Collud′er; Collū′sion, act of colluding: a secret agreement to deceive: deceit.
If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition, or at least tacitly encouraging it.
It was communism all over: a superpower buying influence and colluding with corrupt elites to rob their own nations blind.
After the RainSam Vaknin
collude
- (intr) to conspire together, esp in planning a fraud; connive
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin collūdere, literally: to play together, hence, conspire together, from com- together + lūdere to play
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Word Origin and History for colluding
collude
v.
1520s, from Latin colludere "act collusively," literally "to play with" (see collusion). Related: Colluded; colluding.
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