collusive

[ kuh-loo-siv ]

/ kəˈlu sɪv /

involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.

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First recorded in 1665–75; collus(ion) + -ive

Related forms

col·lu·sive·ly, adverbcol·lu·sive·ness, nounnon·col·lu·sive, adjectivenon·col·lu·sive·ly, adverb

non·col·lu·sive·ness, nounpre·col·lu·sive, adjectiveun·col·lu·sive, adjective

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Collusive labor makes it easier for employers to collude to extract maximum rents from customers.
New York City Bus Strike: A Cosy Cartel, Running Out of Gas|Megan McArdle|January 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There was a committee within the committee—a little nest of head managers—who undertook this collusive arrangement with the whigs.
Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2)|Thomas Hart Benton
Clandestine and collusive practice can only be traced by combination and comparison of circumstances.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12)|Edmund Burke
The colonial secretary charged him with collusive sale of his agency to London shippers, and a fraud on the colonial treasury.
The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)|John West

The only grave imputation on his memory is his connivance, as a Commissioner, at the collusive divorce of Lady Essex.
Sir Walter Ralegh|William Stebbing
How can you ever marry, unless we go through the vulgarity of a collusive divorce?
Septimus|William J. Locke

adj.

1670s, from Latin collus-, past participle stem of colludere (see collude) + -ive.