connive at

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connive at (something)

To plot or conspire about something. What are you kids whispering about back there? You better not be conniving at something!

connive at something (with someone)

and connive (at something) with someone

to scheme at something (with someone); to plot something (with someone). Are you conniving at something with Ronald? Are you and Ronald conniving with Tom at something I should know about? Stop conniving with people!

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He said some employers, who think they were being compassionate, sometimes connive with corps members to breach the rules and regulations of the scheme.

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While announcing the sack, Governor Oshiomhole expressed regrets that engineers attached to the state Ministry of Works connive with contractors to cheat the state and vowed that the government will sack any government engineer found wanting.

Oshiomhole who was visibly angry at this point, due to the contradicting reports given by both the engineer hired by the government to monitor the projects and the state government engineers, said, this is why people prefer to hire foreign engineers because our own engineers, some of them useless, connive with corrupt politicians and contractors do dupe the state.