Definition of Conspiracy

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Conspiracy

A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.

An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

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Conspiracy Quotations

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. Baldwin

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Henry James

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
Dorothy Day

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John Le Carre

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Jeremy Bentham

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Jeremy Rifkin

Conspiracy Translations

conspiracy in Dutch is komplot, samenspanning
conspiracy in French is conspiration
conspiracy in Italian is congiura
conspiracy in Latin is consensio, insidiae, coniuratio
conspiracy in Norwegian is sammensvergelse

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