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conspiracy

/kənˈspɪɹəsi/ Australia, Canada, UK
/kənˈspəɹəsi/ New Zealand

Where it comes from

From Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman conspiracie, from Latin cōnspīrātiō. By surface analysis, conspire + -acy.

noun conspiracies

countable, uncountable An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion. Conspiracies, like all other exercises of human ingenuity, are of very different kinds. The gloomy plots arranged in old Italian halls...
countable, uncountable An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
broadly, countable, uncountable A secret agreement to do something. The former programme of the entertainments, which were to result from this generous conspiracy to assist a man whom fortune had buffeted, was eagerly looked for, not only for the reunion of old favorites that it promised to bring about, but out of sympathy for the sentiment which has prompted this g
broadly, countable, uncountable An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring. But this I call civil life […] living [together] in good and politic order, one ever ready to do good to another, and as it were conspiring [together] in all virtue and honesty. […] You said right now that this civil life was a politic order and, as it were, a conspiracy in honesty and virtue, […]
countable, proscribed, uncountable A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy. Rather than propagating conspiracies about the evils of wealthy Jewry, they beat up poor Roma in back alleys.
collective, countable, rare, uncountable A group of various animals. She was wary, jumping at imagined shadows and at the prowlings of a conspiracy of cats lurking in an alley
collective, countable, rare, uncountable A flock of crows or ravens. Over-the-top tales flew around like a conspiracy of crows.
Similar: murder, unkindness
collective, countable, rare, uncountable A group of lemurs. Indeed, as I sat, forlorn, never having found my particular conspiracy of lemurs (how about that for a name for a group of lemurs? The name lemur itself comes from the Latin for “spirits of the dead”) …
countable, uncountable A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes. That is, further exploration of phonological systems of various languages may turn up evidence motivating conspiracies that have been regarded thus far as impossible.[…]This study of labial palatalization conspiracy is a contribution to the 'too many solutions'/'too few data' problem.

verb conspiracies · conspiracying · conspiracied

proscribed, rare To conspire. He knew I would come for him when I discovered what he did, so he, he conspiracied to put me in prison.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: confederacy, cabal, collusion, cahoots, connivance, conspiring, complicity, accomplice, intrigue, scheme, coup, accessory, comity, cover-up, association, partnership

Translations

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noun an agreement to break the law

한국어	음모 eummo
日本語	陰謀 inbō
中文	陰謀 /阴谋 yīnmóu, 串謀 /串谋 chuànmóu
हिन्दी	षड्यंत्र ṣaḍyantra, साज़िश sāziś
Português	formação de quadrilha
Français	conspiration, complot
Deutsch	Verschwörung
Italiano	cospirazione
Ελληνικά	συνωμοσία synomosía
Română	conspirație
Русский	сго́вор sgóvor, за́говор zágovor
Tiếng Việt	cuộc âm mưu, cuộc mưu hại
العربية	دَسِيسَة dasīsa

noun act of working in secret to obtain some goal

Español	conspiración, contubernio
한국어	음모 eummo
日本語	密議 mitsugi, 陰謀 inbō
中文	陰謀 /阴谋 yīnmóu
हिन्दी	षड्यंत्र ṣaḍyantra, साज़िश sāziś
Kiswahili	njama
Português	conspiração, complô
Français	conspiration, complot
Deutsch	Verschwörung, Konspiration
Italiano	cospirazione
Ελληνικά	συνωμοσία synomosía, δολοπλοκία doloplokía
Română	conspirație
Русский	за́говор zágovor, сго́вор sgóvor
العربية	مُؤَامِرَة muʔāmira, مُوَاطَأَة muwāṭaʔa
עברית	קְנוּנִיָה knuniyá, קֶשֶׁר késher

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@misc{conspiracy_2026,
  title = {conspiracy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/conspiracy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}