collusive

Secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose.

Adjective

  1. Secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose.
    • Do not trust to what the French papers say about it. All their encomiums are collusive. - 1826 January 10, anonymous author, “Sketch of the Remarkable Persons who have Died in France During 1825”, in The London...
    • For purposes of evaluating monopsony cases from the standpoint of economic efficiency, it makes sense to adopt a "purpose"-oriented classification system. After all, all monopsony cases can be reduced to either a...
    • Depending on whether they are collusive or competitive, oligopolies can be more like monopolies or more like perfect competition, respectively, as a Khan Academy video explains. - 2023 May 17, Heather Hennerich, “What...

Origin

From Latin collūs- + -ive, from Latin collūdere, from con- + lūdere.

Forms

more collusive most collusive

Related

collusion collude allusive elusive illusive

Derived

collusively collusiveness noncollusive