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Circumvent vs Evasion - What's the difference?

circumvent | evasion |

As a verb circumvent

is to avoid or get around something; to bypass.

As a noun evasion is

evasion.

circumvent

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to avoid or get around something; to bypass
  • to surround or besiege
  • to outwit or outsmart

    • Related terms

    * circumvention * circumventive

    evasion

    English

    Noun

  • The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
  • * 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
    • In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.

    Synonyms

    * equivocation * prevarication * shift * subterfuge * shuffling

    Derived terms

    * tax evasion

    References

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