معنی کلمه connive

to plan secretly and dishonestly for something to happen that will be to your advantage:
Officials were accused of conniving with the company in the supply of arms to Sierra Leone.
[ + to infinitive ] They connived to break the school rules at every opportunity.
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to allow something bad to happen although you know about it:
She had murdered or connived at the murder of one of her lovers.
He called for an independent investigation to find out whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.

Is he further aware that if anything of this kind were connived at surreptitiously, it would have a very bad effect indeed on public confidence?
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In that way, too many connived in overmanning.
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The police are thought in some quarters to possibly be conniving together to get a conviction.
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The strength of the system is that they are completely separate, and arrive at their decisions without conniving with one other.
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He said that it must be made plain whether they had connived or not.
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I have little doubt, on the constitutional issue, that what we are at present conniving at is wrong.
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The doctors have a much more serious complaint to make in the charge that is brought against them of conniving at malingering.
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If the man is out of the way he would neither have consented nor connived.
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He will stand accused of conniving at a cover-up, and he will be paving the way to a whitewash.

The officials allegedly connived to take public funds for personal use.

We should not connive at the destruction of imaginations, not even to alleviate boredom.