Meaning of CIRCUMVENTION
| Pronunciation: | | s`urkumv'enchun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the act of evading by going around |
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| | See Also: | | dodging, escape, evasion | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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