Meaning & use
colluding
Secretly cooperating with someone else, usually to do something dishonest or illegal.
See it in a sentence
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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