avoidance
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ns noun
1.
the act of avoiding or keeping away from: the avoidance of scandal; the avoidance of one's neighbors.
2.
Law. a making void; annulment.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the act of keeping away from or preventing from happening |
| 2. | law |
| a. the act of annulling or making void | |
| b. the countering of an opponent's plea with fresh evidence | |
| 3. | ecclesiastical law the state of a benefice having no incumbent |
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Avoidance
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
avoidance
late 14c., "action of emptying," from avoid (q.v.). Sense of "action of dodging" is recorded from c.1600; it also meant "action of making legally invalid," 1620s; "becoming vacant" (of an office, etc.), mid-15c.
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Example sentences
The best way to fight tax avoidance, then, is with simplicity.
All of these things are true, but they do not add up to tax evasion, or even tax avoidance.
Their approach to winter is avoidance: they will soon head south to warmer weather.
And the two year reporting was largely invented as an avoidance of the true default rates.
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