collude

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And we collude, we design tests, or at least in Britain, so that people pass them.

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  1. intransitive verb To act together secretly to achieve a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose; conspire.

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  • And we collude, we design tests, or at least in Britain, so that people pass them. —  Jonathan Drori on what we think we know
  • The media and NGOs have raised awareness of sex trafficking in recent years, but does it serve the interests of migrant sex workers to suggest they have been trafficked, or does it collude in their criminalisation and deportation? —  Bound, Not Gagged
  • What he's been strongly against is politicians who are weak-willed and collude with unions against the taxpayers. —  Anchor Rising
  • You're not dealing with a free market when providers collude to fix service agreements, you're dealing with a cartel. —  Slashdot: Hardware
  • Outside parties collude with workers inside the company, or disgruntled insiders do the damage from their desks. —  Redmond Channel Partner Online | News
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  1. Latin collūdere : com-, com- + lūdere, to play; see leid- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French colluder = Spanish coludir (obsolete) = Portuguese colludir = Italian colludere, from Latin colludere, conludere, play together; in legal use, conspire in a fraud; from com-, together, + ludere, play: see ludicrous, ludus.
 

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