to collude
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8.3
- verb
- /kəˈluːd/
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coludirse con
- Because of the ease with which small business owners may collude to evade taxes, they are notoriously tax noncompliant.
- government officials colluded
Oh, my God, Did I collude with ABC News?
- Oh, my God, Did I collude with ABC News?
- We have all of the world's dictators colluding together.
- I do think that there is a component that is quite obviously colluding against public understanding.
- So this and there's a huge incentive to collude.
- And he and Dean were the ones that colluded together and sent those burglars into the Watergate.
- So they'll all collude with one another to make sure that none of us get our way.
- And participating in this in any way is colluding and it's helping to entrench and, and create the problem.
- Donald Trump colluded with his lawyer and a publisher of a major tabloid to buy and bury stories.
- And if firms were colluding, we'd have expected to see them holding back production to raise prices, using their market power to do that.
- So the excuse is I tried to collude, but I didn't get anything.
- Some people will stop paying, stop, stop colluding and pay more taxes, OK?
- I think the friend and the guy that received the pineapple colluded.
- OK, so we need to have a full police Brexit, no more colluding with Europe.
Examples
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The priest colluded with the killers, Anatole says, and then escaped and is now living in France.
Academic text (2010) -
She and her husband colluded to cheat people of their money.
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This is important because it's when you collude with others that you create a pump and dump.
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Both have colluded to cut funding further from schools.
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So they'll all collude with one another to make sure that none of us get our way.
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Social workers must stand with women and children and not collude in their oppression.
Academic text (2008) -
The bank, according to the civil complaint, had colluded with a hedge-fund operator who wanted to short the housing market.
Academic text (2010) -
Investigators are also looking into whether police colluded with the people who discarded the bodies.
Blog text (12) -
Both the petitioners and the university administration colluded in sweeping the matter under the rug.
Academic text (1992) -
The two companies decided to collude to fix prices and eliminate competition.
Synonyms
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5.8
To secretly plan with other people to do something illegal or harmful
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8.8
Secretly allow or help someone to do something wrong
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6.5
To make secret plans to do something dishonest
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9.9
To make secret plans to do something bad
To plan secretly with others to do something illegal
To meet secretly to plan something dishonest
To form a secret group to plot against someone
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
collude = col + lud
Although historically analyzable as Latin col- (together) + lud (to play), in modern English 'lud' is not a standalone word and the verb is a learned borrowing meaning 'conspire', so learners cannot productively derive the sense from its parts.
Etymology
The word collude comes from Latin parts com- meaning 'together' and ludere meaning 'to play', so it originally meant 'to play together'. Think of people secretly 'playing a game' to trick others, which is why to collude means to secretly work together to deceive or cheat.