Obviate vs X - What's the difference?
obviate | x |
To bypass a requirement or make it unnecessary; to avoid a future problem or difficult situation.
* 1826', Richard Reece, ''A Practical Dissertation on the Means of '''Obviating & Treating the Varieties of Costiveness ,
* 2004 , David J. Anderson, Agile Management for Software Engineering ,
* 2008 , William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis: In Medicine, Dentistry, and Psychology ,
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb obviate
is to bypass a requirement or make it unnecessary; to avoid a future problem or difficult situation.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.obviate
English
Verb
(obviat)- They saved enough money for their purchase and obviated the need to borrow.
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- A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.
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- Some change requests, rather than extend the scope, obviate some of the existing scope of a project.
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- Thus, to obviate resistance, the discussion should be relevant to the patient?s problems.