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Circumvention definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CIRCUMVENTION, n.
1. The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
2. Prevention; preoccupation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of evading by going around

Merriam Webster's

noun see circumvent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Circumvention 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Fraud, deception, imposition, imposture, deceit, cheat, cheating, trick, trickery, indirection, crooked ways, chicanery, wiles.

Moby Thesaurus

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