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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Collusion \Col*lu"sion\, n. [L. collusio: cf. F. collusion. See
     {Collude}.]
     1. A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or
        deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands;
        deceit; fraud; cunning.
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              The foxe, maister of collusion.       --Spenser.
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              That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face
              of the world, that there may be no room to suspect
              artifice and collusion.               --Atterbury.
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              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.
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     2. (Law) 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}.
  
     Usage: 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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  collusion
       n 1: secret agreement
       2: agreement on a secret plot [syn: {connivance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "collusion":
     accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, artifice,
     association, bipartisanship, cabal, cahoots, chicane, chicanery,
     co-working, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency,
     cochairmanship, codirectorship, coincidence, collaboration,
     collaborativeness, collectivism, collectivity, combination,
     combined effort, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise,
     communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity,
     complot, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord,
     concordance, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confluence,
     conjunction, connivance, connivery, consilience, conspiracy,
     contrivance, contriving, cooperation, cooperativeness,
     correspondence, counterplot, covin, deep-laid plot, dodgery, duet,
     duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, engineering,
     esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, finagling,
     finesse, foul play, frame-up, game, harmony, intrigue,
     joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, junction,
     little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, mass action,
     morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, parasitism,
     pettifoggery, pettifogging, plot, plotting, pooling,
     pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet,
     reciprocity, rigging, saprophytism, scheme, schemery, scheming,
     septet, sextet, sharp practice, simultaneity, skulduggery, sleight,
     solidarity, stratagem, supercherie, symbiosis, synchronism,
     synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, trick, trickery, trio,
     triumvirate, troika, underhand dealing, underplot, union,
     united action, web of intrigue, wire-pulling
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  COLLUSION, fraud. 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; as, for example, where the husband and wife collude to obtain a 
  divorce for a cause not authorized by law. It is nearly synonymous with 
  @covin. (q.v.) 
       2. Collusion and fraud of every kind vitiate all acts which are 
  infected with them, and render them void. Vide Shelf. on Mar. & Div. 416, 
  450; 3 Hagg. Eccl. R. 130, 133; 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 51; Bousq. Dict. de Dr. 
  mot Abordage. 
  
  

















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