English
conspiracy
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kənˈspɪɹəsi/
Noun

conspiracy

  1. The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
  2. (legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
  3. A group of ravens.
  4. A group of lemurs.
  5. (linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
  6. (by ellipsis) A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.
    • 2008, Edward Snajdr, Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-0-295-98856-6, page 176 ↗:
      Rather than propagating conspiracies about the evils of wealthy Jewry, they beat up poor Roma in back alleys.
    • 2018, Rita Santos, The Deep State, Greenhaven Publishing, ISBN 978-1-5345-0321-2, page 99 ↗:
      The internet helps spread conspiracies, but it can also be used to verify claims made by politicians and the media.
Translations Translations Verb

conspiracy (conspiracies, present participle conspiracying; past and past participle conspiracied)

  1. (rare, proscribed) To conspire.


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