EVASION: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | i'veyzhun
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- [n] the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- [n] nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- [n] the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"
- [n] a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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| | Synonyms: | | dodging, equivocation, nonpayment |
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| | Antonyms: | | defrayal, defrayment, payment | | |
| | See Also: | | carelessness, circumlocution, circumvention, commerce, commercialism, deceit, deception, dodge, doublespeak, eluding, elusion, escape, escape mechanism, evasive action, flight, goldbricking, goofing off, hedge, hedging, indirect expression, malingering, maneuver, manoeuvre, mercantilism, misrepresentation, neglect, negligence, nonperformance, quibble, quiddity, shirking, skulking, slacking, slip, soldiering, tax evasion | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \E*va"sion\, n. [L. evasio: cf. F. ['e]vasion. See
{Evade}.]
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of
an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful
means of eluding.
Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more.
--Milton.
Syn: Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication;
equivocation.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstention, airtight secrecy, anythingarianism, artifice, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, break, breakout, buck-passing, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, close secrecy, closeness, concealment, cop-out, cringe, crypticness, cunning, deceit, deception, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, discreetness, discretion, dodge, dodging, double-talk, duck, elusion, elusiveness, emergence, equivocating, equivocation, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasive action, evasiveness, excuse, extrication, fallback, fence-sitting, fencing, flight, flinch, foiling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, freeing, frustration, fudging, getaway, getting around, getting round, haggling, hairsplitting, hedging, hiddenness, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, impartiality, independence, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jink, leak, leakage, liberation, logic-chopping, lying, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, nit-picking, nonalignment, noncommitment, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, outguessing, outlet, outmaneuvering, outwitting, paltering, parrying, passing the buck, pettifoggery, prevarication, prevention, prisonbreak, pullback, pullout, pussyfooting, quibbling, recoil, refraining, release, rescue, retreat, riddance, runaround, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, setting-free, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, slip, sophistry, strict neutrality, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tergiversation, the dark, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trichoschistism, trickery, uncommunicativeness, vent, weasel words, wince, zigzag |
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