circumvention
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin circumventio.
[edit] Noun
circumvention (plural circumventions)
- The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
- The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
- A school in which he learns sly circumvention. --William Cowper.
[edit] Translations
act of prevailing
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