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conspiracy - 18 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | conspiracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collusion in plan |
| Synonyms: | cabal, confederacy, disloyalty, fix, frame*, game, intrigue, league, machination, plot, practice, scheme, sedition, treachery, treason, trick, trickery, complot, connivance, countermine, counterplot, covin, hookup, little game, perfidy, put-up job, treacherousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | coalition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allied group, association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, amalgam, bloc, combination, combine, compact, confederacy, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, faction, federation, fusion, integration, league, merger, party, ring, unification, union, amalgamation, anschluss, coadunation, confederation, melding, mergence, merging |
| Antonyms: | disassociation |
| Main Entry: | collusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret understanding, often with intent to defraud |
| Synonyms: | bill of goods*, cahoots*, complicity, con game*, conspiracy, craft, deceit, dodge, double-cross, flimflam*, graft, guilt, gyp, intrigue, plot, racket, scam, scheme, shell game*, skunk*, sting*, trick, whitewash, bait and switch, bunco, connivance, diddling, fast shuffle, flam, fradulent artifice, guiltiness |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confederacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coalition |
| Synonyms: | alliance, bond, compact, conspiracy, covenant, federation, government, league, organization, union, anschluss, confederation |
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
| Synonyms: | aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots*, coalition, collaboration, combination, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, conspiracy, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, participation, partnership, reciprocity, service, society, synergy, teamwork, union, unity, coaction, coadjuvancy, combined effort, confederation, confunction, doing business with, logrolling, partisanship, playing ball, responsiveness, symbiosis, synergism, teaming, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage, blockage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cover-up |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attempt to conceal embarrassing or scandalous information |
| Synonyms: | burial*, camouflage, complicity, concealment, conspiracy, evasion, front, pretense, whitewash, closeting, disguising, dissimulation, hush-up, masking, placing under wraps, seal of secrecy, smoke-screen, veil of secrecy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | machination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maneuver, plot |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cabal, conspiracy, design, device, dirty work*, dodge*, intrigue, monkey business*, ploy, practice, ruse, scheme, skullduggery*, song and dance*, stratagem, trick, on the make, sellout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | snare, trick |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, bait, booby trap*, come-on*, conspiracy, deception, decoy, device, dragnet, enticement, feint, gambit, hook*, intrigue, lasso*, lure, machination, maneuver, net, noose, pitfall, plot, ploy, prank, quagmire, ruse, snag*, stratagem, subterfuge, temptation, wile, allurement, ambuscade, inveiglement, quicksand, seducement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cabal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plot |
| Synonyms: | conspiracy, intrigue, scheme |
| Main Entry: | inside job |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transgression by someone inside a group |
| Synonyms: | cabal, conspiracy, insider trading, insider dealing |
| Main Entry: | faction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group sharing a belief or cause |
| Synonyms: | band, bloc, bunch, cabal, camp, caucus, cell, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combine, concern, conclave, confederacy, conspiracy, contingent, coterie, crew, crowd, design, division, entente, gang, guild, intrigue, junta, knot, lobby, machine, minority, mob, network, offshoot, outfit, partnership, party, pressure group, ring, schism, sect, section, sector, set, side, splinter group, team, unit, wing, combo, insiders |
| Antonyms: | entirety, total, whole |
| Main Entry: | intrigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scheme |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cabal, chicanery, collusion, complication, conspiracy, contrivance, deal, design, dodge, double-dealing*, fix, fraud, game, graft, machination, maneuver, manipulation, plan, plot, ruse, stratagem, trickery, wile, frame-up, hookup, little game |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan, scheme |
| Synonyms: | artifice, booby trap*, cabal, collusion, complicity, conspiracy, contrivance, design, device, fix, frame, game, intrigue, machination, maneuver, practice, ruse, scam, setup, stratagem, trick, connivance, conniving, covin, frame-up, little game |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile, circumvention |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | combination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance, association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, bloc, cabal, cahoots, cartel, circle, clique, club, coalition, combine, compound, confederacy, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, coterie, faction, federation, gang, guild, mafia, merger, partnership, party, pool, ring, set, syndicate, trust, unification, union, camarilla, coadunation, confederation, consortium, hookup, melding, mergence, merging, tie-up* |
| Antonyms: | dissolution, separation, disunion, severance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | racket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal activity |
| Synonyms: | cheating, con game, confidence game, conspiracy, corruption, crime, dirty pool*, dishonesty, dodge, extortion, fraud, game, graft, intrigue, lawlessness, lay, plot, push, scheme, shakedown, squeeze*, swindle, theft, trick, underworld, illegality, illicit scheme, swindling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scheme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plot, maneuver to get result |
| Synonyms: | action, angle*, cabal, conspiracy, dodge*, game, game plan*, gimmick, hustle, hype*, intrigue, layout, machination, picture*, pitch, ploy, practice, proposition, ruse, scenario, scene, setup, shift*, story, stratagem, subterfuge, tactics, trick*, twist*, brainchild, covin, frame-up, hookup, put-up job |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention |
| Synonyms: | action, aim, angle, animus, big picture*, brainchild, child*, conation, conspiracy, deliberation, end, enterprise, game plan*, gimmick, goal, intendment, intrigue, lay of the land, machination, meaning, notion, object, objective, picture, pitch, plan, play, plot, point, project, proposition, purport, purpose, recipe, reflection, scenario, scene, schema, scheme, setup, story, target, thinking, thought, trick, undertaking, view, volition, what's cooking, will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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