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collusive
[ kuh-loo-siv ]
adjective
- involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement:
a collusive agreement to increase prices.
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Other Words From
- col·lusive·ly adverb
- col·lusive·ness noun
- noncol·lusive adjective
- noncol·lusive·ly adverb
- noncol·lusive·ness noun
- precol·lusive adjective
- uncol·lusive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of collusive1
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Example Sentences
Collusive labor makes it easier for employers to collude to extract maximum rents from customers.
In the back-ground are two collusive associates, eagerly dividing the profits of the evening.
Justice Johnson intimated—all but formally charged—that the case was collusive.
Afterwards, it seems, the Archdeacon in a collusive suit allowed judgment to go against himself and his church.
It is thus easy for two men to concert a collusive attack which shall succeed either way, and be dishonest both ways.
The only grave imputation on his memory is his connivance, as a Commissioner, at the collusive divorce of Lady Essex.
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