Get to know Collusive better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like conniving or covert.
Collusive in a sentence
Collusive meaning
Secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose.
Using Collusive
- The main meaning on this page is: Secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose.
- Useful related words include: conniving, covert.
- In the example corpus, collusive often appears in combinations such as: collusive prices.
Context around Collusive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Collusive
- In this selection, "collusive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 17.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, challenging, prices, censorship and lawsuit stand out and add context to how "collusive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be a collusive inhibition of and below the collusive price from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "collusive" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with collusive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Someone is challenging collusive censorship! (5 words)
Public-sector unionism, in contrast, is collusive. (7 words)
Information withholding as a manipulative and collusive strategy in Nukulaelae gossip. (11 words)
Background Congress passed the Elkins Act as an amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act. Without restrictive legislation, large firms could demand rebates or prices below the collusive price from railroad companies as condition for their business. (36 words)
The result of the Elkins Act was that Railroads had a stronger mechanism to protect their collusive prices and corporate trusts were weakened in their ability to gain shipping discounts. (30 words)
While the Act restricted preferential pricing, it did not specify what constituted a "reasonable" shipping rate; thus, railroads could use the law to entrench a system of collusive prices. (29 words)
Someone is challenging collusive censorship! (5 words)
Example sentences (12)
Public-sector unionism, in contrast, is collusive.
Someone is challenging collusive censorship!
A federal district court in Minnesota recently confronted a similar issue with another collusive lawsuit.
The depth and scope of media’s collusive enablement for the “moment” is staggering.
Background Congress passed the Elkins Act as an amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act. Without restrictive legislation, large firms could demand rebates or prices below the collusive price from railroad companies as condition for their business.
Defendants can hold reverse auctions and any of several parties can engage in collusive settlement discussions.
Illicit trade was carried on by collusive captures arranged between American traders and British officers.
Information withholding as a manipulative and collusive strategy in Nukulaelae gossip.
Klein held this to be a collusive inhibition of analytical work with the child.
On the surface a witty comedy, there is subtle subversion underneath: "it concludes with collusive concealment rather than collective disclosure".
The result of the Elkins Act was that Railroads had a stronger mechanism to protect their collusive prices and corporate trusts were weakened in their ability to gain shipping discounts.
While the Act restricted preferential pricing, it did not specify what constituted a "reasonable" shipping rate; thus, railroads could use the law to entrench a system of collusive prices.
Common combinations with collusive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: