0 to plan secretly with other people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone's wishes:
[ + to infinitive ] He felt that his colleagues were conspiring together to remove him from his job.
As girls, the sisters used to conspire with each other against their brother.
1 to plan secretly with other people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes:
[ + to infinitive ] Moore conspired with Graham to rob the bank.
[ + to infinitive ] They somehow conspired to keep the theater alive when all government funding ended.
Theories of cognition and the experimental tasks used to test those theories often conspire hand in hand to overlook limited search and stopping rules.
These arguments conspire to place virtue beyond the jurisdiction of the law.
Moreover, growing inclination to question the state was accompanied by social tensions apparent in belief that elites were conspiring against the people through famine plots.
These two properties conspire to make nucleic acids relatively flexible and less likely to form extensive folded structures.
The effect of these infelicities conspire to make crucial points of his argument unclear and suggestive.
In effect, speakers and hearers will conspire for communicative reasons to ensure that functional and lexical items are phonologically distinctive.
It is imperative that transitional regimes do not conspire to 'forget' their violent past.
These processes conspire to produce output that is commensurate with what we will try to show is a parochially deviant system.
