Col·lū'sion, n.

(-zhun), n. [Lat. collusio. See COLLUDE.] A secret agreement and co-operation for a fraudulent purpose; deceit; fraud.

By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

Synonyms—COLLUSION, CONNIVANCE. A person who is guilty of connivance intentionally overlooks, and thus sanctions what he was bound to prevent. A person who is guilty of collusion unites with others (playing into their hands) for fraudulent purposes. The connivance of public men at what is wrong is often the result of the basest collusion.

These miracles were done publicly, in the face of the world, that there might be no room to suspect artifice or collusion. Atterbury.

In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all, they were conniving. Burke.