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单词 connivance
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connivance

noun
/kəˈnaɪvəns/
/kəˈnaɪvəns/
[uncountable] (disapproving)
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  1. help in doing something wrong; the failure to stop something wrong from happening
    • The crime was committed with the connivance of a police officer.
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (also in the Latin sense ‘winking’): from French connivence or Latin conniventia, from connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’.
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