About The Word Circumvention

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Circumvention

Circumvention Meaning & Definition
Circumvention Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Circumvention?

[n] the act of evading by going around

Synonyms | Synonyms for Circumvention:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Circumvention: avoidance | avoiding reaction | bamboozlement | befooling | bluffing | buck-passing | calculated deception | conning | deceiving | deception | deceptiveness | defense mechanism | defrauding | delusion | delusiveness | dodge | duck | dupery | elusion | elusiveness | enmeshment | ensnarement | entanglement | entrapment | equivocation | escape | evasion | evasive action | evasiveness | fallaciousness | fallacy | falseness | flimflam | flimflammery | foiling | fond illusion | fooling | forbearance | forestalling | forestallment | frustration | getting around | getting round | hallucination | hoodwinking | illusion | jink | kidding | mirage | neutrality | nonintervention | noninvolvement | outguessing | outmaneuvering | outwitting | overreaching | passing the buck | phantasm | prevention | putting on | refraining | self-deception | shunning | shunting off | shy | sidestep | sidetracking | slip | snow job | song and dance | spoofery | spoofing | subterfuge | swindling | the runaround | the slip | thwarting | trickiness | tricking | victimization | vision | willful misconception | wishful thinking | zigzag

See Also | dodging | escape | evasion

Circumvention In Webster's Dictionary

\Cir`cum*ven"tion\, n. [L. circumventio.] The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. --Cowper.

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