ZebraWords.com - The Definition of 'Circumvention', Synonyms of 'Circumvention' & More on 'Circumvention'

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

circumvention
    n 1: the act of evading by going around

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Circumvention \Cir`cum*ven"tion\, n. [L. circumventio.]
   The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or
   fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
   [1913 Webster]

         A school in which he learns sly circumvention.
                                                  --Cowper.
   [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

CIRCUMVENTION, torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is 
reduced to a deed by decree. Tech. Dict. It has the same sense in the civil 
law. Dig. 50, 17, 49 et 155; Id. 12, 6, 6, 2; Id. 41, 2, 34. Vide 
Parphrasis.

Thesaurus Results for CIRCUMVENTION:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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