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collude
[
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uh
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lood
]
Example Sentences
Origin
col·lude
/
kəˈlud
/
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[
k
uh
-
lood
]
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verb (used without object),
-lud·ed,
-lud·ing.
1.
to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
2.
to conspire in a fraud.
Origin:
1515–25;
(<
Middle French
) <
Latin
collūdere
to play together, equivalent to
col-
col-
1
+
lūdere
to play
Related forms
col·lud·er,
noun
pre·col·lude,
verb (used without object),
-lud·ed,
-lud·ing.
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Example Sentences
Males
collude
with their peers as a way of stealing fertile females from competing dolphin bands.
Prosecutors have argued that they need to be detained so that they do not
collude
with witnesses.
But in other cases, he said, doctors
collude
with suppliers.
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Males
collude
with their peers as a way of stealing fertile females from competing dolphin bands.
Prosecutors have argued that they need to be detained so that they do not
collude
with witnesses.
But in other cases, he said, doctors
collude
with suppliers.
Large supermarkets have little reason to
collude
in the market as a whole.
But when parents and test prep companies
collude
to game the system, it's business as usual.
In this high-margin segment, two or three multinationals usually dominate-and can easily manipulate prices if they
collude
.
We are not prepared to keep silent, and
collude
with repression”.
But, if pilots were not screened, they could
collude
with someone else to bring forbidden items behind the sterile area.
Not only can they
collude
to raise the pot and drive out other players, but they can share the contents of their hands.
To acknowledge the reality of fear is not necessarily to
collude
with it.
In many cases, private real estate companies
collude
with officials to clear and develop the land as quickly as possible.
Farmers have turned violently against local officials who
collude
with developers to buy up their land at unfairly low prices.
The original study was so compelling because it explained how nature and nurture could
collude
to produce a complex mood problem.
Cells further
collude
as organs, and organs pool their talents and become bodies.
All these elements
collude
to define the women, their clothing.
That's a captured market controlled by the few who
collude
and manipulate securities because they can with impunity.
Corrupt politicians
collude
with rich families such to manage the economy in a way that benefits them.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
collude
(kəˈluːd)
—
vb
(
intr
) to conspire together, esp in planning a fraud; connive
[C16: from Latin
collūdere,
literally: to play together, hence, conspire together, from
com-
together +
lūdere
to play]
col'luder
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
collude
1520s, from L. colludere "act collusively," lit. "to play with" (see
collusion
). Related: Colluding (early 17c.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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