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evasion
Found in thesaurus: deception, misrepresentation, deceit, mercantilism, commerce, commercialism, neglect, negligence, nonperformance, carelessness, escape, flight
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evasion
n.
avoidance, dodging
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Evasion
Evasion may refer to:
- Évasion, a Canadian French-language travel and adventure television channel
- Évasion FM, a French local radio station
- Evasion (ethics), a deceptive act
- Evasion (law), to avoid government mandate through specious means (tax evasion, for example)
- Evasion (book), a book adapted from a zine of the same title
- Evasion (network security), techniques to by-pass network security devices
- Evasi0n, a jailbreaking tool for iOS devices
- Citroën Evasion, a Eurovan minivan
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Évasion
Évasion is a Canadian French language Category A specialty channel owned by Groupe Serdy and Groupe TVA. The channel broadcasts programming devoted to travel and adventure.
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evasion
Noun
1. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
(synonym) equivocation
(hypernym) misrepresentation, deceit, deception
(hyponym) circumlocution, indirect expression
2. the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"
(synonym) nonpayment
(hypernym) commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
(hyponym) tax evasion
3. nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
(synonym) escape, dodging
(hypernym) negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance
(hyponym) escape mechanism
(derivation) hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
4. the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
(hypernym) escape, flight
(hyponym) slip, elusion, eluding
(derivation) elude, evade, bilk
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évasion
nf.
escape, evasion; excursion, break
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evasión
nf.
escape, flight; evasion, dodging
