collude

[ kuh-lood ]

/ kəˈlud /

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verb (used without object), col·lud·ed, col·lud·ing.

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

OTHER WORDS FROM collude

col·lud·er, nounpre·col·lude, verb (used without object), pre·col·lud·ed, pre·col·lud·ing.

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How to use collude in a sentence

Lai, the owner of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, was arrested last August and accused of colluding with foreign forces under China’s national security law.
Jimmy Lai’s bail denial is the latest battle in the war over Hong Kong’s courts|Mary Hui|February 9, 2021|Quartz
That’s a problem because algorithms don’t need to communicate to collude, and as a result there are few legal mechanisms to prosecute this kind of collusion.
As Algorithms Take Over More of the Economy, We Should Cede Control (Very) Carefully|Edd Gent|December 1, 2020|Singularity Hub
Question them, and you are colluding in exacerbating the awful effects of their trauma.
What the U-VA Rape Case Tells Us About a Victim Culture Gone Mad|Lizzie Crocker|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whitehouse noted that Inhofe charged that government agencies had been “colluding” to peddle climate-change threats.
If You Think D.C. Is Awful Now, Wait Until Wednesday|Jonathan Alter|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“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 City|Tim Teeman|August 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
By restricting aid to only registered groups, the State Department is colluding with repressive regimes, fear democracy advocates.
Obama’s Budget Fails Democracy Promotion Abroad|Jamie Dettmer|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He accuses Tehran of secretly colluding with Washington in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Al Qaeda Comeback|Bruce Riedel|April 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition, or at least tacitly encouraging it.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)|Edmund Burke
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' War|John Calvin Reed
It was communism all over: a superpower buying influence and colluding with corrupt elites to rob their own nations blind.
After the Rain|Sam Vaknin
Collud′er; Collū′sion, act of colluding: a secret agreement to deceive: deceit.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|Various

British Dictionary definitions for collude

collude

/ (kəˈluːd) /

verb

(intr) to conspire together, esp in planning a fraud; connive

Derived forms of collude

colluder, noun

Word Origin for collude

C16: from Latin collūdere, literally: to play together, hence, conspire together, from com- together + lūdere to play

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