evasion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   nonperformance of something distasteful, as by deceit or trickery, that you are supposed to do

   Their evasion of duty was reprehensible.

2. 2
   noun

   the deliberate act of failing to pay money

   Their evasion of all their creditors did not help build their credit rating.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

   In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.

4. 4
   noun

   the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

From Middle French évasion, from Late Latin evasionem (accusative of evasio).

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