conspiracy🔊

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

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

A group of ravens.

A group of lemurs.

(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.

A hypothesis alleging that the members of a coordinated group are, and/or were, secretly working together to commit illegal or wrongful actions, including attempting to hide the existence of the group and its activities.