noun
conspiracy
a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
In a sentence
Six example sentences with conspiracy, each labelled with its topic.
Prosecutors charged conspiracy, arguing that the four had agreed in private emails to rig the bidding months before any contract was signed.
Law
The Gunpowder Plot began as a conspiracy among thirteen men who met in a London inn and swore each other to silence.
History
The heist film spends its first hour on the conspiracy itself, six strangers in a garage settling who will disable the alarms.
Movies
The novel's plot is a conspiracy among three clerks to alter the will before the family reads it.
Literature
The senator was cleared of conspiracy after prosecutors could not show he knew of the bribery scheme.
Politics
Regulators uncovered a conspiracy among four banks to fix the benchmark rate that priced millions of loans.
Finance
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