con·niv·ance
noun/kəˈnaɪvəns/
/kəˈnaɪvəns/
[uncountable] (disapproving)- help in doing something wrong; the failure to stop something wrong from happening
共谋；纵容；默许 - The crime was committed with the connivance of a police officer.
这项罪行是在警察的纵容下发生的。
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’. - The crime was committed with the connivance of a police officer.