Evasion

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  • noun. The act or an instance of evading.
  • noun. A means of evading; a subterfuge.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of evading or eluding; a getting away or out of the way; avoidance by artifice or strategy; artful escape or flight.
  • noun. A means of avoidance or escape; an evasive or elusive contrivance; a subterfuge; a shift.
  • noun. In fencing, the avoiding of a thrust by moving the body without changing the position of the feet. Rolando (ed. Forsyth).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the deliberate act of failing to pay money
  • noun. the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
  • noun. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
  • noun. nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
    • Word Usage
    "Tax evasion is totally unacceptable at a time like this."
    Form
    tax evasion  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Asian  Caucasian  Malaysian  abrasion  caucasian  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    artifice  avoidance  chicanery  compromise  concealment  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abstention  airtight secrecy  anythingarianism  artifice  avoidance  
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