avoidance

a·void·ance (

-void

ns)

1. The act of shunning or avoiding.

2. Law An annulment.

avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns]

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.

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Noun

avoidance - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

shunning, turning away, dodging

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

noun

1. refraining, dodging, shirking, eschewal tax avoidance

2. prevention, safeguard, precaution, anticipation, thwarting, elimination, deterrence, forestalling, prophylaxis, preclusion, obviation Improve your health by stress avoidance

Translations

avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] N the avoidance of fatty foods → el evitar los alimentos grasos
you can improve your health by the avoidance of stress → uno 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 santÃ© en Ã©vitant le stress

avoidance

n → Vermeidung f; the avoidance of inheritance tax → die Umgehung der Erbschaftssteuer; his careful avoidance of the truth → sein ständiges Umgehen der Wahrheit; thanks only to her steady avoidance of bad company → nur weil sie konsequent schlechte Gesellschaft mied

avoidance [əˈvɔɪd/əns] n her avoidance of me has been noticed by everyone → tutti hanno notato che mi evita
his avoidance of his duty → la sua mancanza al dovere
see also tax

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abient acquired reflex adient atonal conditional reaction conditional reflex conditional response conditioned avoidance conditioned avoidance response conditioned reaction conditioned reflex conditioned response dodging escape Evitation lipography minimisation near thing shunning	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. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context 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". Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context "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. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context	avitaminotic avizandum Avlona AVM avn avo avocado avocado pear avocado tree Avocat Avocate avocation avocational Avocative avocet Avogadro Avogadro Amedeo Avogadro number Avogadro's constant Avogadro's hypothesis Avogadro's law Avogadro's number avoid avoid work avoidable avoidance avoidant Avoider Avoidless avoirdupois avoirdupois unit avoirdupois weight Avoke Avolate Avolation Avon Avoset avouch Avouchable Avoucher Avouchment Avoutrer Avoutrie avow Avowable avowal Avowance Avowant avowed avowedly Avowee	avoid avoid avoid avoid avoid a straight answer avoid arrest Avoid At All Costs Avoid Bad Company avoid capture Avoid Clichés Like The Plague avoid doing avoid like the plague avoid peril Avoid Taxes Avoid Taxes Avoid Taxes avoid using Avoid Verbal Orders avoid work avoidable avoidable avoidable Avoidable Consequences Avoidable Cost Avoidable Costs avoidable delay Avoidable Years of Life Lost Ratio avoidably avoidably avoidably avoidance Avoidance behavior Avoidance behaviour Avoidance behaviour Avoidance Conditioned Pain Related Disability avoidance conditioning Avoidance learning Avoidance learning Avoidance learning Avoidance of Contract Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreements avoidance of extremes Avoidance of Tax Avoidance of Tax Avoidance of Tax Avoidance of Taxes Avoidance of Taxes Avoidance of Taxes avoidance of waste Avoidance, Tax Avoidance, Tax Avoidance, Tax avoidance, zone avoidance-avoidance conflict avoidance-avoidance conflict avoidances avoidances avoidances Avoidant Avoidant avoidant disorder of childhood and adolescence

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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.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context

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".

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

"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.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context

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