noun. A highway or section of a highway that passes around an obstructed or congested area.

noun. A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.

noun. A means of circumvention.

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noun. An alternative passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

noun. A surgical procedure to create such a channel.

transitive verb. To avoid (an obstacle) by using an alternative channel, passage, or route.

transitive verb. To be heedless of; ignore.

transitive verb. To channel (piped liquid, for example) through a bypass.

noun. a road that passes around something, such as a residential area

noun. a circumvention

noun. a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture

noun. an electrical shunt

noun. an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass

verb. to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass

verb. to ignore the usual channels or procedures

"First of all, the need for a bypass is a no-brainer."

coronary artery bypass  

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