conspiration

From Middle English conspiracioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman; or from Middle French conspiration, from Latin conspiratio, conspirationem. Doublet of conspiracy.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

conspiration (countable and uncountable, plural conspirations)

1. Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose
2. A plot between two or more people against somebody's wishes; conspiracy.

• conspire
• conspiracy

• actinoporins, nonpsoriatic

Borrowed from Latin cōnspīrātiō, cōnspīrātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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conspiration f (plural conspirations)

1. conspiracy (act of working in secret to obtain some goal)

• conspirateur
• conspirer

• “conspiration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).