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avoidance

/əˈvɔɪdəns/noun3 syllables

Avoidance means: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.

Synonyms for avoidance10

noun, as in deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

turning away, shunning, dodging

also used for avoidance

discommendation, silent treatment, blackballing, blacklisting, ostracism, ostracization, petalism

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What does avoidance mean?1

noun

1

deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Avoidance in a sentence

  • Trust is risk, and risk avoidance is the name of the game in business.unknown
  • The government is cracking down on tax avoidance schemes.patgfisher
  • There's a fine line between tax minimisation and tax avoidance.patgfisher
  • There's a fine line between tax minimization and tax avoidance.CK
  • Exercising outdoors with others has become an avoidance dance.Hybrid
  • Will the media really continue to gloss over corporate tax avoidance?Nylez
  • This is an egregious example of tax avoidance.unknown
  • The left is abandoning issues like this entirely out of timidity, avoidance of impurity, or some other reason.shekitten

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Forms of avoidance

as a noun

plural
avoidances