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# conspiracy

«conspiracy» in Mova's school dictionary: **A secret plan made by a group of people to do something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a conspiracy, conspiracies; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A secret plan made by a group of people to do something harmful or illegal: «a conspiracy to rob the bank». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#m1)

2) The act of planning such a thing: «They were found guilty of conspiracy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#m2)

3) A conspiracy theory: a belief that a secret group is behind events, often without good evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (Guy Fawkes, remembered on Bonfire Night in the UK) was a conspiracy to blow up Parliament. In media literacy and online-safety lessons, pupils learn to check conspiracy theories (for example, that the Moon landings were faked) against reliable evidence. In mystery stories, the detective uncovers a conspiracy. Phrases: «a conspiracy theory», «a conspiracy to», «a conspiracy of silence», «uncover a conspiracy».

### examples

- The Gunpowder Plot was a conspiracy to blow up Parliament in 1605. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x1)
- The detective uncovered a conspiracy to steal the crown jewels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x2)
- My cousin believes a conspiracy theory that the Moon landings were faked, but there is strong evidence they were real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x3)
- The men were jailed for conspiracy to commit fraud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x4)
- There was a conspiracy of silence about the missing money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x5)
- Always check a conspiracy theory with trusted sources. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x6)
- The kids joked that there was a conspiracy to give them extra homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x7)
- For many years the founder of Thebes reigned happily, but at length a conspiracy was formed against him, and he was deprived of his throne by his grandson Pentheus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/#x8)

### note

Plural: conspiracies (y changes to ies). The verb is «conspire» and a person who does it is a «conspirator». Trap: calling something a «conspiracy theory» does not make it automatically false or true; the question is the evidence. Some real conspiracies have happened, but most popular conspiracy theories have no good evidence.

### In the corpora

- [And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.430/)
- [And the LORD said unto me: 'A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.333/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conspiracy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conspiracy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.