conspiracy

English

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French conspiracie, from Latin conspiratio. Doublet of conspiration.

conspiracy (countable and uncountable, plural conspiracies)

The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, 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.
(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.

Terms derived from conspiracy

act of working in secret to obtain some goal

Arabic: مُؤَامِرَة‎‎ f (muʾāmira)
Armenian: դավադրություն (hy) (davadrutʿyun)
Belarusian: змо́ва f (zmóva)
Bulgarian: за́говор (bg) m (zágovor), съзакля́тие (bg) n (sǎzakljátie), конспира́ция (bg) f (konspirácija)
Catalan: conspiració f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 陰謀 (zh), 阴谋 (zh) (yīnmóu)
Czech: spiknutí n
Danish: konspiration c, sammensværgelse c
Dutch: samenzwering (nl) f, complot (nl) n
Esperanto: konspiro (eo)
Finnish: salaliitto (fi)
French: conspiration (fr) f
Georgian: შეთქმულება (ka) (šetkmuleba), კონსპირაცია (ḳonsṗiracia)
German: Verschwörung (de) f, Konspiration f
Greek: συνωμοσία (el) f (synomosía), δολοπλοκία (el) f (doloplokía)
Hebrew: קנוניה‎‎ (he) f (qnunia), קשר‎‎ (he) m (qesher)
Hungarian: összeesküvés (hu), konspiráció
Indonesian: konspirasi (id)
Irish: comhcheilg f, comhchogar m
Italian: cospirazione (it) f
Japanese: 密議 (ja) (みつぎ, mitsugi), 陰謀 (ja) (いんぼう, inbō)
Korean: 음모 (ko) (eummo)

an agreement to break the law

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: salahanke (fi)
French: criminalité en bande organisée f, délinquance en bande organisée f, association de malfaiteurs f
German: Verschwörung (de) f
Greek: συνωμοσία (el) f (synomosía)
Irish: comhcheilg f

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