Definitions for conspiracy
kənˈspɪr ə sicon·spir·a·cy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

2. conspiracy, cabalnoun

   a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

3. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conspiracynoun

   The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.

2. conspiracynoun

   An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.

3. conspiracynoun

   A group of ravens.

4. Etymology: The verb conspire generally accepted of coming from the roots con, and spiro — so 'to conspire' literally means 'to breathe together'.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conspiracynoun

   Etymology: conspiratio, Latin.

   1. A private agreement among several persons to commit some crime; a plot; a concerted treason.

   O conspiracy!
   Sham’st thou to shew thy dang’rous brow by night,
   When evils are most free? William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

   I had forgot that foul conspiracy
   Of the beast Caliban, and his confed’rates,
   Against my life. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   When scarce he had escap’d the blow
   Of faction and conspiracy,
   Death did his promis’d hopes destroy. Dryden.

   2.In law, an agreement of men to do any thing; always taken in the evil part. It is taken for a confederacy of two at the least, falsely to indict one, or to procure one to be indicted of felony. John Cowell3. A concurrence; a general tendency of many causes to one event.

   When the time now came that misery was ripe for him, there was a conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things, to frame fit occasions to lead him unto it. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

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1. conspiracy

   A conspiracy is a secret plan or agreement between two or more individuals or parties to commit an unlawful or harmful act, typically on a large scale. The act targeted may be carried out in secret, often for personal gain or with the intent of disrupting normal operations or overthrowing an authority. Conspiracy also refers to the legal culpability for such acts. It is also used to describe theories that suggest certain events or situations are the result of such clandestine plots.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conspiracynoun

   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

2. Conspiracynoun

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

3. Conspiracynoun

   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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1. Conspiracy

   In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future. Criminal law in some countries or for some conspiracies may require that at least one overt act must also have been undertaken in furtherance of that agreement, to constitute an offense. There is no limit on the number participating in the conspiracy and, in most countries, no requirement that any steps have been taken to put the plan into effect. For the purposes of concurrence, the actus reus is a continuing one and parties may join the plot later and incur joint liability and conspiracy can be charged where the co-conspirators have been acquitted or cannot be traced. Finally, repentance by one or more parties does not affect liability but may reduce their sentence.

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Matched Categories

1. • Plot
   • Politics

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'conspiracy' in Nouns Frequency: #2764

Anagrams for conspiracy »

1. snipocracy

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of conspiracy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of conspiracy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of conspiracy in a Sentence

1. Mitch McConnell:

   Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion, this ought to be good news for everyone but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief.

2. Renee DiResta:

   Both real people and trolls are capitalizing on that mistrust to push conspiracy theories out to vulnerable audiences, this isn't just happening on Twitter. This is happening on Facebook, and this is happening on YouTube, where searching for vaccine information on social media returns a majority of anti-vaccine propaganda.

3. Scott Gottlieb:

   The entire Pacific Rim has less than 1,000 infections a day, people want to say China is lying about the two dozen cases that they’re reporting a day, which I don’t believe they are [lying]. Certainly, the entire Pacific Rim isn’t in on the conspiracy. It isn’t inevitable that we have a raging epidemic.

4. Denver Riggleman:

   I condemn this movement and urge all Americans to join me in taking this step to exclude them and other extreme conspiracy theories from the national discourse.

5. Ruth Danielsen:

   Then the BLM began secretly gathering ‘stuff’ against the Hammonds accusing them of arson, conspiracy, flying in restricted airspace, etc..

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=conspiracy
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Conspiracy
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=conspiracy
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=conspiracy