[U] (formal, disapproving) secret agreement especially in order to do sth dishonest or to deceive people:
The police were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. * There was collusion between the two witnesses (= they gave the same false evidence).
collusive adjective:
There is a secret collusive relationship between politics and the media which the outside world rarely glimpses.
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