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Circumvention   /sˌərkəmvˈɛntʃən/   Listen
Circumvention

noun
1.
The act of evading by going around.





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"Circumvention" Quotes from Famous Books



... anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil. This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years' voyage round Cape ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville


Words linked to "Circumvention" :   circumvent, evasion, escape, dodging


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