complicity
[noun]
Synonyms: collusion, connivance

---

Related Words: implication, involvement, engineering, machination, manipulation, wire-pulling

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

com‧plic‧i‧ty /kəmˈplɪsəti, kəmˈplɪsɪti/ noun [uncountable] formal
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: complicité, from Old French complice; ⇒ accomplice]

1. involvement in a crime, together with other people
complicity in
Jennings denied complicity in the murder.

2. involvement in or knowledge of a situation, especially one that is morally wrong or dishonest
complicity with
His complicity with the former government had led to his downfall.
—complicit adjective:
The careers of officers complicit in the cover-up were ruined.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

complicity
noun
ADJ. alleged, apparent her alleged complicity in the bombing
active | government, police
PREP. ~ between the complicity between the army and drug smugglers
~ in her complicity in a plot to kill the president
~ with She did not suspect him of complicity with the authorities.
PHRASES an act of complicity
 ⇒ Note at CRIME (for verbs)

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲