Synonyms for collusion
Most common
association conspiracy complicity connivance agreement artifice
All synonyms
Noun
connivance, complicity, conspiracy, association, agreement, artifice, combination, confederacy, covin dated
Definitions
- n. 1
A private, cooperative agreement or arrangement between groups that otherwise maintain the pretense of competition, contention or non-cooperation.
Related words
- Word family
- collude
Forms
- Plural
- collusions → connivances, complicities, conspiracies, associations…
Example sentences
- association My family belongs to the neighborhood association.
- conspiracy Yanni and Skura were both charged with conspiracy.
- complicity It is but a short step from negligence to complicity.
- agreement I'm in complete agreement with everything he said.
- artifice The language of truth must be, with no doubt, simple and without artifice.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| collusion | steady | |
| association | falling | |
| conspiracy | steady | |
| complicity | rising | |
| connivance | falling | |
| agreement | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- covin2
- 8 letters
- artifice3
- 9 letters
- agreement3
- 10 letters
- conspiracy4, complicity4, connivance3
- 11 letters
- association5, combination4, confederacy5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (covin2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- collusion
- Italiano
- collusione