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US
/kəˈɫud/
]
[ UK /kəlˈuːd/ ]
[ UK /kəlˈuːd/ ]
VERB
-
act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose
The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall
How To Use collude In A Sentence
- The wigs, drapery and costuming were a form of escape in which he lovingly (and chastely) colluded. Times, Sunday Times
- This means what you think it means: the press willingly collude with the British government in keeping certain information secret that you really ought to know.
- FIFA's decision to award the World Cup to Qatar capped a scandal-plagued campaign that included allegations that the Qatar committee and Spain-Portugal's 2018 bid committee colluded to trade support from Africa for support from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries for the committees' respective bid years. Qatar's World Cup Spending Spree
- Thus, genes and memes collude and compound one another to produce a larger cultural narrative embodied in the Slasher genre, and symbolized anthropomorphically in psycho killers like Freddy Krueger. Kurt Forman: Genes, Memes, and Nightmares
- The spiritual riches of a full life are kept from the sufferer while the therapist colludes with the addictive disease itself.
- There is no question of having colluded in the stopover of any flights. Times, Sunday Times
- Did anyone involved in either managing or marketing the trusts collude in a way that impacted on share prices and could be construed as market abuse?
- The situation is grave because the political and administrative machinery colludes with private companies to mint money from mines.
- Concerns have been raised that livestock valuers and farmers have colluded to increase the value of animals culled during the crisis, a national newspaper has reported.
- My mother colluded in the myth of him as the swanky businessman.