Word Meanings - COLLUSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. Bouvier. Abbott. Syn. -- Collusion, Connivance. A person who is guilty of connivance intentionally overlooks,

Additional info about word: COLLUSION

An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. Bouvier. Abbott. Syn. -- 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 for fraudulent purposes. (more info) 1. A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. 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.

Related words: (words related to COLLUSION)

• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• COLLUSION
  An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. Bouvier. Abbott. Syn. -- Collusion, Connivance. A person who is guilty of connivance intentionally overlooks,
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• FORBIDDENLY
  In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Shak.
• OBJECTIVITY
  The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
• DEFRAUDATION
  The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.
• PERSONA
  See 8
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• UNIPERSONALIST
  One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
• TRIPERSONALITY
  The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• TRIPERSONAL
  Consisting of three persons. Milton.