conspiracy of silence

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   a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event

   “there was a conspiracy of silence about police brutality”

   Broaderconspiracy

Questions about conspiracy of silence

What does conspiracy of silence mean?

conspiracy of silence means "a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event".

Is conspiracy of silence a common word?

conspiracy of silence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.