Meaning & use

colluding

verb·Academic

Secretly cooperating with someone else, usually to do something dishonest or illegal.

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The two executives were accused of colluding to fix prices across the industry.

Investigators suspected the bidders were colluding instead of competing fairly.

A note on using this word

Colluding almost always implies a secret or improper arrangement, unlike neutral words such as 'cooperating'.

Words with a similar meaning

conspiringscheming

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