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Collusive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Acting in secret to achieve a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful goal.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion.

adj. Acting in collusion.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Fraudulently concerted or secretly entered into between two or more: as, a collusive arrangement. See collusion, 2.

Acting in collusion.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end

Word Usage

"The targets have ranged from banks to accounting firms, and in some cases the measures have zeroed in on precisely the kind of collusive bid-rigging that long characterized Japan's corrupt "iron triangle" -- the cozy relationships between bureaucrats, businessmen and politicians."

Equivalent

covert

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

conspiratory

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

abusive allusive conclusive conducive elusive

Same Context

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