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Definition: Avoidance |
AvoidanceNoun1. Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "avoidance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | For tax avoidance, term used to describe not only illegal evasion of tax obligations but also the entirely legal ways by which a person may so arrange his affairs as to minimise, or even eliminate, tax liability. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AvoidanceSynonyms: dodging (n), shunning (n), turning away (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion. |
Escape | N.escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion; (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Avoidance |
| English words defined with "avoidance": abient, atonal ♦ cagey, cagy, chary ♦ escape, Evitation ♦ moderate, moderatism ♦ political correctitude, political correctness ♦ restrained ♦ special pleading ♦ unambiguity, unequivocalness, unkeyed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "avoidance": collision avoidance system, collision-avoidance system, Confidentiality edit ♦ electronic warfare support measures ♦ geometric reasoning ♦ Hubnet, Hundred Percent Detail File ♦ insurance and risk manager ♦ netiquette ♦ Paranoid Personality Disorder ♦ Repression-Sensitization, Reversal Learning, rigid construction, rigid design, rigid type construction, rigid type design, RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGER, rock-steady structure ♦ Sample Edited Detail File, Sch-23390 ♦ vibration-less construction. (references) |
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Books | |
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 | Reginald Fessenden and his electric oscillator, the first acoustic device to receive echoes from the bottom as well as from an obstruction in the water. The oscillator was designed as an underwater signalling, communication, and obstruction avoidance device. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Master Sgt. Kenneth Taylor, 19th Special Operation Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., flies the Visual Threat Recognition and Avoidance Trainer which he designed to provide realistic interactive training for threat avoidance during hostile anti-aircraft enga. |
 | An Avoidance Pattern / LINDH(?). Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Where the contract has lapsed during the war owing to nonpayment of premiums, or has become void from breach of the conditions of the contract, the assured or his representatives or the person entitled shall have the right at any time within twelve months of the coming into force of the present Treaty to claim from the insurer the surrender value of the policy at the date of its lapse or avoidance. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Food allergy is treated by dietary avoidance. (references) | |
Over time there is often a pattern of spreading fearful avoidance. (references) | ||
Strict avoidance of sunburning should be strongly recommended to this group. (references) | ||
Business | This trend of improving industrial efficiency and, consequently, waste avoidance is expected to continue in the next few years. (references) | |
In addition, the TA Siedlungsabfall (Federal Waste Avoidance and Management Act) limits organic substance remnants at 5% in sludge to be deposited. (references) | ||
The Waste Avoidance and Waste Management Act has been refined in the interest of promoting environmentally compatible closed substance cycle and waste management. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | India and the U.S. have a bilateral double taxation avoidance treaty. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan also has over 30 treaties on avoidance of double taxation. (references) | |
Japan | The U.S.-Japan Tax Treaty provides for the avoidance of double taxation. (references) | |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | On the down side, tariffs on numerous products and even raw material inputs and capital equipment remain excessively high, leading to chronic tariff avoidance by Nigerian importers. (references) |
BANGLADESH | On May 3, 2001, the United States Treasury announced that delegations from the United States and Bangladesh reached agreement on the text of a treaty for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income. (references) | |
Nicaragua | In 2000 a series of political accords between the governing PLC and the FSLN, although highly controversial, ceded the FSLN more power in several governmental institutions in exchange for the avoidance of the use of violent protests to achieve political ends. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This Administration has set strict standards for personal financial disclosure and conflict of interest avoidance by high Federal officials, to elevate the level of public trust in the government. |
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| "Avoidance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.58% of the time. "Avoidance" is used about 472 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.58% | 470 | 12,586 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 472 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "avoidance": animal/vehicle collision avoidance system ♦ Avoidance Learning ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance ♦ collision avoidance system ♦ conditioned avoidance ♦ conditioned avoidance response ♦ Confession and avoidance ♦ Cue avoidance ♦ tax avoidance ♦ terrain avoidance system. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "avoidance": anti-avoidance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "avoidance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | anulim (abolishment, annulment, cancel, cancellation, cassation, Defeasance, defeat, invalidation, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation), shmangje (deviation, digression, shunning), shmangie (aberration, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, divergence, divergency, diversion, elusion, evasion, fencing, forbear, forbearance, jink, Miss, Parry, sidestep, swerve), mbetje bosh, mënjanim (demission, detachment, elimination, retirement, stand off, swerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تفاد (dodge, parry), تهرب (be truant, beg the question, evade, fight shy of, fly in the face of, get in, hedge, malinger, shirk, shun, sidestep, skulk, swing the lead), تجنب (avert, avoid, bypass, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, put off, save, shirk, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive), إلغاء (abolishment, abolition, annihilation, cancel, cancellation, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, revocation), إبطال (abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancellation, circumvention, counteraction, defeasance, frustration, invalidation, negation, nullification, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, vitiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | овакантяване (vacation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 退避. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zrušení èeho, vyvarování se èeho, vyhýbaní se. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | unddragelse (evasion, tax avoidance, tax evasion), skattetænkning (tax avoidance), lovlig skatteunddragelse (tax avoidance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ontwijking (tax avoidance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karttaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | annulation, soustraction, dérobade, évitement, évasion fiscale (tax avoidance), évasion (tax avoidance), échappement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vermeidung (prevention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποφυγή (prevention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חמיק" (dodging, evasion), "מ עות (abstention, abstinence, forbearance, omission, restraint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elkerülés (pretermission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengelakan (deflection, evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | annullamento (abolition, annulment, cancellation, nullification, repeal), lo sfuggire, il scansare, evitare (avert, avoid, avoid each other, balk, decline, elude, escape, evade, flee, help, prevent, shirk, shun, stave off, to avoid), evasione (breakaway, elopement, escape, evasion, flight, fuite, gaolbreak, gaolbreaking, get away, getaway, jailbreak, jailbreaking, transaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 関税回避 (tariff avoidance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"ぜいかいひ (tariff avoidance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 거 (Elimination, removal, Removing, scrubbing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shaghnys (adjournment, evasion), shaghnaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avoidanceay ato de evitar, anulação (abrogation, annulment, defeasance, defeat, deletion, dissolve, licking, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, revocation, undoing), revogação (countermand, defeasance, deprivation, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, vacation, withdrawal), evasão (escape, evasion, flying). (various references) anulare (annulment, call off, cancellation, defeasance, defeat, effacement, nullification, remitment, remittal, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation), sustragere (abstraction, removal, theft), evitare (dodge, evasion, Parry). (various references) уклонение (elusion, error, evasion, jink, runaround), упразднение (abolition, annihilation), вакансия (opening, vacancy). (various references) poništenje (abolishment, annulment, avoid, cancellation, cassation, countermand, defeasance, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, recession, repeal, rescission, vitiation), izbegavanje (avoid, duck out, elusion, evasion). (various references) anulación (annulment, cancel, cancellation, defeat, denouncement, nullification, repudiation, rescission, revocation), evitación (prevention), evasión legal de impuestos (tax avoidance), evasión (dodge, escapade, escape, escapism, evasion, flight, prison breaking), escape (blowoff, blowout, elopement, escape, escapement, exhaust, exhaust pipe, flight, fuite, getaway, leak, leakage). (various references) undvikande (avoiding, elusive, evasion, evasive, evation, oblique), förhindrande (hindrance, preclusion, prevention). (various references) การเลี่ยง. (various references) uzak durma (abstention, abstinence, aloofness, keeping aloof, keeping away, standoff, staying away), sakınma (caution, evasion, forbearance, watchfulness), kurtulma (dodge, elusion, escape, recovery, riddance, salvation), kaçınma (abstention, abstinence, avoiding, bolt, elusion, evasion, forbearance, sidestep, sparing), iptal (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancel, cancellation, cancelling, cassation, defeasance, defeat, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, nullity, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, termination, void, withdrawal). (various references) gaзalga. (various references) ухилення (equivocation), уникнення (avoiding, elusion, riddance), відміна (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, defeasance, effacement, rescission, reversal, revocation, washout, withdrawal), вакансія (opening, vacancy), анулювання (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancel, cancellation, defeasance, invalidation, nullification, repeal, rescission, revocation, write off). (various references) sự tránh xa, sự tránh khỏi, sự tránh (evasion, jink, shy), sự thủ tiêu (abatement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, defeasance, defeat, disannulment, liquidation, rescission). (various references) gocheliad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fuga, fugam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "avoidance": avoidances. (additional references) | |
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"Avoidance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avianca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "avoidance" (pronounced uvoy"duns) |
| 4 | -d u n s | abundance, accordance, ascendance, attendance, cadence, coincidence, confidence, correspondence, credence, decadence, dependence, dissidence, evidence, guidance, impedance, imprudence, incidence, independence, interdependence, jurisprudence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, precedence, Providence, prudence, residence, riddance, subsidence, transcendence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, acceptance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, assistance, assurance, audience, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, dalliance, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, province, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-n-o-v" | |
-1 letter: voidance. | |
-2 letters: advance, codeina, naevoid, vanadic. | |
-3 letters: acedia, acnode, advice, aeonic, anodic, canoed, codeia, codein, coined, deacon, invade, navaid, nevoid, novice, voiced. | |
-4 letters: acned, aecia, anode, avian, avion, avoid, caned, canid, canoe, caved, cavie, coden, coned, coved, coven, covin, dance, danio, daven, devon, divan, doven, envoi, naevi, naiad, naive, nicad, novae, ocean, ovine, vanda. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-n-o-v" | |
+1 letter: avoidances, vacationed. | |
+3 letters: deactivation, nonactivated. | |
+4 letters: deactivations, valedictorian. | |
+5 letters: nonradioactive, valedictorians. | |
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