Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Acting in secret to achieve a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful goal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fraudulently concerted or secretly entered into between two or more: as, a collusive arrangement. See collusion, 2.
  • Acting in collusion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion.
  • adjective Acting in collusion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end

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Examples

  • The targets have ranged from banks to accounting firms, and in some cases the measures have zeroed in on precisely the kind of collusive bid-rigging that long characterized Japan's corrupt "iron triangle" -- the cozy relationships between bureaucrats, businessmen and politicians.

    Backsliding in Japan 2007

  • Avid cyclist Marica Marais, who participated in this year's Cape Argus Cycle Tour, said cyclists put great trust in the firms that sold bicycles in South Africa and that she was angered by the "allegation that there had been some kind of collusive behaviour".

    IOL: News 2010

  • But what I think of when I fill out my personal ballot is that there are probably one or two that actually count that look like mine; that we can't just discount the Academy as some kind of collusive organization that meets secretly to decide who gets nominated and who wins.

    Movie City News 2009

  • We need good safety programs in Canada to protect workers from accidents, but I did not sign up to a member of a union, and I’m not going to be dragged down into some kind of collusive governmental-unionized regulatory control of the privatized industry.

    2009 January 08 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • We need good safety programs in Canada to protect workers from accidents, but I did not sign up to a member of a union, and I’m not going to be dragged down into some kind of collusive governmental-unionized regulatory control of the privatized industry.

    Construction Safety: A Slippery Slope To Over-Regulation « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • "collusive" agreements, and unveiled a new button on its website.

    BNET Articles 2010

  • But are we sure that these sorts of collusive contracts are illegal?

    The Airline Union Game, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The NFL could unilaterally institute its final offer to the union -- in that case what the clubs would pay players on what used to be called the "taxi" squads -- without having to worry about the implications of the antitrust laws, which would have made the collusive decision of the owners a clear violation of law.

    Roger I. Abrams: Eighth Circuit Heading in the Wrong Direction in Football Dispute Roger I. Abrams 2011

  • The NFL could unilaterally institute its final offer to the union -- in that case what the clubs would pay players on what used to be called the "taxi" squads -- without having to worry about the implications of the antitrust laws, which would have made the collusive decision of the owners a clear violation of law.

    Roger I. Abrams: Eighth Circuit Heading in the Wrong Direction in Football Dispute Roger I. Abrams 2011

  • The Commission says the overflight fees are "both a blatant breach of international law and in contradiction with EU competition law" because carriers must strike exclusive commercial agreements with Aeroflot that the Commission says are collusive.

    EU Pushes for Revision of Aviation Pacts With Russia Daniel Michaels 2010

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