Collude in a sentence as a verb

Lastly, they collude, and all the prices are about the same.

"In other words, they collude to keep the public in the dark.

The publishers have been slapped in court for trying to collude to raise prices.

VCs collude and decide, as a group, who's hot and who's not. They don't compete with each other.

To collude to deny others the right of free association and free employment is just as wrong.

The claim is that the banking community is so tight-knit that they collude with each other to keep the book price down.

Does anyone collude to prevent bakers from switching bakeries?

The difference is that financial firms take pride in how much they pay their employees, while tech firms do things like collude to depress employee wages.

In my opinion the perpetrators here should do time in prison, just the same as executives who collude to fix commodity prices.

I think they failed to envision the case where said branches would collude and ignore the rules to protect each other's power quid pro quo, and most people would not notice and not be bothered.

If two parties choose to collude to set prices, the free market has no opinion on the matter as such; if they set prices incorrectly in the process of judging the market, they will lose.

The idea of regulation is key to free markets — otherwise they cease to be free as soon as a majority of the players agree to collude against everyone else.

I am doubtful, however, because I think the "cool kids" malignancy-- the VC darlings, the investor in-crowd who all collude on terms-- has taken over the organism.

Furthermore, when Realtors collude with their Brokers, they have collective incentive to both negotiate prices upward and take as large of a cut as possible of that inflated amount.

I have made a conscious decision to collude illegally in order to suppress the wages of my own employees because I frankly don't think us folks at the top are getting enough of the pie.

These companies colluded for years on salary and poaching to make it possible to selectively hire from choice schools and people with a certain "pedigree" -- which artificially limited the pool of people they felt were "acceptable"...which drove up the salary of people from this pool which of course caused them to want to collude to keep wages down.

Collude definitions

verb

act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose; "The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall"

See also: conspire