COLLUDE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they collude ... he / she / it colludes

Past simple: colluded

Past participle: colluded

-ing form: colluding

Meaning:

Act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose

Example:

The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall

Synonyms:

collude; conspire

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "collude" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

collusion (secret agreement)

collusion (agreement on a secret plot)

collusive (acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end)