Dictionary

collusive en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin collūs- + -ive, from Latin collūdere, from con- + lūdere.

Meanings

1. Secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose.
   • Depending on whether they are collusive or competitive, oligopolies can be more like monopolies or more like perfect competition, respectively, as a Khan Academy video explains. 2023 May 17, Heather Hennerich, “What Makes a Market an Oligopoly?”, in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2025:
   • For purposes of evaluating monopsony cases from the standpoint of economic efficiency, it makes sense to adopt a "purpose"-oriented classification system. After all, all monopsony cases can be reduced to either a unilateral or collusive use of buying power in order to promote the interests of the buyer. 2010, Roger D. Blair, Jeffrey L. Harrison, “The Antitrust Laws and Monopsonistic Forms of Conduct”, in Monopsony in Law and Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section 2.4 (A Taxonomy of Monopsony Cases), page 29:
   • Do not trust to what the French papers say about it. All their encomiums are collusive. 1826 January 10, anonymous author, “Sketch of the Remarkable Persons who have Died in France During 1825”, in The London Magazine, volume 4, page 341:

Forms

Deriveds

collusively · collusiveness · noncollusive

Relateds

collude · illusive · elusive · allusive · collusion