Meaning & use
connivence
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Secret or tacit cooperation in wrongdoing; a variant spelling of 'connivance'.
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The scandal could not have continued so long without the connivence of senior officials.
Investigators suspected the connivence of at least two employees in the fraud.
A note on using this word
Less common variant spelling of 'connivance'; both trace back to the Latin conivere, 'to close the eyes to'.
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