Conspiracy
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A conspiracy is an act of two or more persons, conspirators, working in secret to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. Etymologically, the term comes from Latin con- "with, together", and spirare "to breathe".
Types of conspiracies
- Conspiracy (civil), an agreement between persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of their legal rights, or to gain an unfair advantage
- Conspiracy (criminal), an agreement between persons to break the law in the future, in some cases having committed an act to further that agreement
- Conspiracy (political), the overthrow of a government
See also
- List of conspiracies (political)
- Conspiracy theory
- Furtive
- Intrigue
- Gunpowder Plot
- Paranoid fiction
- Plot
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