0 the activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal: --
1 a secret plan made by two or more people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes: --
2 a secret agreement made between two or more people or groups to do something bad or illegal that will harm someone else: --
A group of former housing counsellors has been indicted on fraud and conspiracy charges in one of the biggest real estate fraud cases ever seen in the state.
conspiracy to do sth The four directors have denied conspiracy to defraud pensioners by misusing shares that belonged to pension funds.
conspiracy between sb (and sb) The group of optometrists denied there was any conspiracy between them and other industry associations to stop the sale of lenses to mail order houses.
conspiracy against sb It is my client's opinion that there has been a conspiracy against him.
We are in danger of suffering from the national neurosis of seeing conspiracies everywhere we look.
They must stop their propaganda exercise of looking for conspiracies and trying to colour the picture.
Clause 1(1) deals with making conspiracies statutory conspiracies.
One has to realise that not all conspiracies are organised in one place.
I have always regarded professional bodies of this kind as, in part at least, conspiracies against the layman.
I agree that we should put conspiracies behind us.
Many democracies have fallen and are falling, some of them because of party conspiracies and chicanery.
They somehow manage to conjure up all sorts of conspiracies that they think are going on here.
