conspiracy

IPA: kʌnspˈɪrʌsi

An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
(law) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
(loosely) A secret agreement to do something.
(loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.
(rare) A group of ravens.
(rare) A group of lemurs.
(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
(by ellipsis) A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.

Examples of "conspiracy" in Sentences

The conspiracy preceded the attacks.
The conspiracy is one of dunces, of course.
The first article accused the judge of conspiracy.
The attempt was thwarted and the conspiracy unraveled.
The conspiracy is explained in the body of the article.
Your Palin conspiracy is in left field according to LL.
The conspiracy issue is something that the anon subscribes to.
The conspiracy was to inflate the estimates used for the loans.
The term conspiracy is not limited to an unlawful scheme or plot.
Are these editors all in on the conspiracy to delude Wikipedia readers
The word "conspiracy," a character notes, derives from the Latin for "breathe together."
Objectors gave spirited critiques of what they described as a conspiracy against culture itself.
It's a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories, about the powerful mythology of the greatest crime of the American century.
Barrie Zwicker, Canadian media commentator and journalist: "At a certain point, the term conspiracy-theory becomes just an excuse not to do your homework."
Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate, the term conspiracy theory started to carry negative connotations after the philosopher Karl Popper wrote, during the Third Reich, that conspiracy theories propelled the paranoid ideologies that gave rise to totalitarian regimes such as that of Adolf Hitler.