avoidance
the act of avoiding or keeping away from: the avoidance of scandal; the avoidance of one's neighbors.
Law. a making void; annulment.
Origin of avoidance
1Other words from avoidance
- non·a·void·ance, noun
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How to use avoidance in a sentence
It has obstacle avoidance built-in, but if it should tip over for some reason, it can right itself without human help.
Boston Dynamics gave its dog-like robot a charging dock and an arm on its head | Stan Horaczek | February 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThere are national endeavors, predominately in the United States, for satellite tracking and collision avoidance maneuvering.
Thousands More Satellites Will Soon Orbit Earth—We Need Better Rules to Prevent Space Crashes | Lauren Napier | January 29, 2021 | Singularity HubThe company’s new camera system is a step toward deploying more advanced safety features such as forward collision avoidance and wrong-way-riding detection, Ko said.
Ford’s Spin unit to boost e-scooters with software that alerts pedestrians of sidewalk riders | Dalvin Brown | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostImproved regulation could help China crack down on wayward businesses—tackling issues of pollution and tax avoidance, for example.
Blacklist vs. ‘redlist’: What to know about China’s new corporate social credit score | eamonbarrett | December 10, 2020 | FortuneCombined, they provide collision avoidance and drop-off protection to keep riders safe—plus, they boast an anti-tip alert system that automatically notifies loved ones in case of an accident.
The wildest engineering innovations of 2020 | By Sara Chodosh and Andrew Rosenblum | December 3, 2020 | Popular-Science
The real advisers to the Ready for Hillary organization are almost comically precise in their avoidance of the term “campaign.”
The Coronation That Wants to Be a Movement: Scenes From Hillary’s Iowa Steak Fry | Ana Marie Cox | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTExistential crisis in this reading is not an apprehension of reality, but a symptom of its avoidance.
But those who worked with Charles in advertising say that his avoidance of contact was not shyness, but a deliberate campaign.
Charles Saatchi: From Saatchi & Saatchi to Allegedly Choking Nigella Lawson | Peter Jukes | June 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn addition, new tax rates kicked in on higher income individuals thanks to the fiscal cliff avoidance deal.
Why not get rid of the tax, and the tax avoidance, by radically simplifying the tax code?
Our Tax Code is Too Complicated. Here's How to Simplify It. | Megan McArdle | April 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir avoidance of each other arose, perhaps, from a sort of instinct which was certainly no matter of ill-will.
The Double Four | E. Phillips OppenheimNow Gregson had nothing of this desire for avoidance with regard to Mr. Gray.
My Lady Ludlow | Elizabeth GaskellAnd why should I suspect him at all, in the face of Mrs. Saltillo's confessed avoidance of him?
Stories in Light and Shadow | Bret HarteMany, perhaps, will see an additional cause in teleological considerations, aiming at the avoidance of in-and-in breeding.
The Sexual Life of the Child | Albert MollHe sounded me, pushed out his mouth and pulled down his nose, recommended avoidance of excitement.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for avoidance
/ (əˈvɔɪdəns) /
the act of keeping away from or preventing from happening
law
the act of annulling or making void
the countering of an opponent's plea with fresh evidence
ecclesiastical law the state of a benefice having no incumbent
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