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avoidance

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a·void·ance  (-voidns)
n.
1. The act of shunning or avoiding.
2. Law An annulment.

avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns]
n
1. the act of keeping away from or preventing from happening
2. (Law) Law
a.  the act of annulling or making void
b.  the countering of an opponent's plea with fresh evidence
3. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) Ecclesiastical law the state of a benefice having no incumbent

Individual and/or unit measures taken to avoid or minimize nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) attacks and reduce the effects of NBC hazards.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.avoidance - deliberately avoidingavoidance - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
rejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
aversion, averting - the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"
escape - an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"
near thing - something that barely avoids failure or disaster

avoidance
Translations
avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] N the avoidance of fatty foodsel evitar los alimentos grasos
you can improve your health by the avoidance of stressuno puede mejorar su salud evitando el estrés
see also tax
avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] n
to improve one's health by the avoidance of stress → jouir d'une meilleure santé en évitant le stress
avoidance
nVermeidung f; the avoidance of inheritance taxdie Umgehung der Erbschaftssteuer; his careful avoidance of the truthsein ständiges Umgehen der Wahrheit; thanks only to her steady avoidance of bad companynur weil sie konsequent schlechte Gesellschaft mied
avoidance [əˈvɔɪdns] n her avoidance of me has been noticed by everyonetutti hanno notato che mi evita
his avoidance of his duty → la sua mancanza al dovere
see also tax


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As the story of 'Agnes Grey' was accused of extravagant over-colouring in those very parts that were carefully copied from the life, with a most scrupulous avoidance of all exaggeration, so, in the present work, I find myself censured for depicting CON AMORE, with 'a morbid love of the coarse, if not of the brutal,' those scenes which, I will venture to say, have not been more painful for the most fastidious of my critics to read than they were for me to describe.
It is astonishing how much the Art -- or I may almost call it instinct -- of Sight Recognition is developed by the habitual practice of it and by the avoidance of the custom of "Feeling".
"I beg your pardon," offered Edna, in some embarrassment, for she should have remembered that Mademoiselle Reisz's avoidance of the water had furnished a theme for much pleasantry.
 
 
 
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