Evasion

Definitions: Evasion

Evasion

Noun

1. A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.

2. Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive".

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

Date "evasion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Finance	An illegal attempt to avoid paying tax. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Evasion

Synonyms: dodging (n), equivocation (n), escape (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Avoidance	Avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion.
Concealment	Reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence; (taciturnity); suppression of truth; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness; Adjective: mystery.
Cunning	Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap.
Dereliction of Duty	Noun: dereliction of duty; fault; (guilt); sin; (vice); non-observance, non-performance; neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; dead letter.
Escape	N.escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion; (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity.
Falsehood	Perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri; perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration; prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi; (lie); mystification; (concealment); simulation; (imitation); dissimulation, dissembling; deceit; blague.
Nonobservance	Noun: nonobservance; evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality.
Reasoning,	Sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness; Adjective: nonsense; word sense, tongue sense.
Untruth	Pretense, pretext; false plea; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham; (deception).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Evasion

English words defined with "evasion": Al Capone, Alphonse Capone ♦ blunt ♦ candid, Capone ♦ dodging ♦ escape, evasively ♦ forthright, forthrightly, frank, free-spoken ♦ goldbricking, goofing off ♦ Impleadable ♦ Outloose, outspoken ♦ plainspoken, point-blank, Put-off ♦ quibble, quiddity ♦ Scarface, shirking, slacking, soldiering, square, squarely, Starting hole, straightforward ♦ tax evasion, Tergiversator. (references)

Specialty definitions using "evasion": back duty ♦ combat survival ♦ derobement ♦ reasonable ♦ spamblock, SURVIVAL SPECIALIST. (references)

Etymologies containing "evasion": Impleadable ♦ Outloose. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion. (THX 1138; writing credit: George Lucas;) A man must know the right occasion to indulge in tax evasion. (Shock Treatment; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman) Now that's an evasion! (It Happened One Night; writing credit: Samuel Hopkins Adams; Robert Riskin)
Movie/TV Titles	Evasion (1947) Fare Evasion (1999)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	1999 Military Field Manual on Survival, Evasion, and Recovery � Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force Multiservice Manual (reference) Evasion (reference) Getaway: Driving Techniques for Evasion and Escape (reference) The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (The Wisconsin Project on American Writers) (reference) The Sas Escape, Evasion and Survival Manual (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	SAS ESCAPE EVASION SURVIVAL (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Armenia	In June the President amnestied 40 members of Jehovah's Witnesses who were accused of draft evasion. (references)
	Armenia	Thirteen members of Jehovah's Witnesses remained in detention, charged with draft evasion or, if forcibly drafted, with desertion. (references)
	Russia	In December 1999, the local procurator denied the town military garrison's request to open a criminal case against Kovyazin for draft evasion. (references)
Economic History	Ecuador	Tax evasion by Ecuadorian business is also widespread. (references)
	Venezuela	However, tax evasion is a serious problem that the government is attempting to address. (references)
	Argentina	Dishonest practices in the private sector, including tax evasion, are common in Argentina. (references)
Human Rights	Lebanon	The Military Court has jurisdiction over cases involving the military as well as those involving espionage, treason, weapons possession, and draft evasion. (references)
	Uzbekistan	Human rights groups believe that another 4,400 - 4,900 such individuals were being held after conviction for other alleged crimes, such as narcotics possession and tax evasion. (references)
	Eritrea	The special courts have jurisdiction over some criminal cases, such as capital offenses, felonies, misdemeanors, cases of tax evasion involving large sums, and cases of embezzlement by senior officials. (references)
Political Economy	HAITI	Moreover, tax evasion is widespread. (references)
	CHILE	Many smaller enterprises underreport income, but tax evasion is a minor problem. (references)
	PARAGUAY	Even though land taxes are low, chaotic land title records make land tax evasion the norm. (references)
Trade	Botswana	South Africa claimed the move was necessary to eliminate pervasive VAT evasion fraud. (references)
	Australia	The purpose is to control tax evasion and money laundering and does not inhibit currency transfers associated with international trade. (references)
	Colombia	A customs inspection group has been trained to perform after-clearance random investigations to detect fraud, foreign exchange irregularities, and tax evasion. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Another circumstances which claims attention as directly affecting the very source of our navigation is the defect or the evasion of the law providing for the return of sea men, and particularly of those belonging to vessels sold abroad.
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	Heads of Departments, bureaus, and all other public officers having any duty connected therewith will be expected to enforce the civil-service law fully and without evasion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Evasion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Evasion" is used about 255 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)	100%	255	18,554

Expressions using "evasion": evasion and escape ♦ evasion of tax ♦ tax evasion. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "evasion": tax-evasion, truth-evasion.
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 "evasion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shmangie (aberration, avoidance, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, divergence, divergency, diversion, elusion, fencing, forbear, forbearance, jink, Miss, Parry, sidestep, swerve), arratisje (break, debacle, decampment, elopement, escape, escapement, flight, leg-bail, scamper, scape). (various references)

Arabic		‏مراوغة (deviousness, dodge, elusion, equivocation, evasiveness, prevarication, quibble, shiftiness, slyness, trickery), ‏هروب (efflux, flight, outflow, passing), ‏حيلة للتعذر, ‏تملص (back out of, duck, elude, elusion, evade, furtiveness, hedge, shrink, shuffle off, swing the lead, worm, wriggle), ‏تجنب (avert, avoid, avoidance, bypass, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, 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). (various references)

Bulgarian		отбягване (skirting), извъртане (chicane, dodge, dodgery, equivocation, indirection, jugglery, legerdemain, quibble, salvo, shuffle, taradiddle, tergiversation, torsion, twist), избягване (elopement, elusion, escapade, escape). (various references)

Chinese		躲避. (various references)

Czech		vyhnutí, vyhýbavá odpovìï. (various references)

Danish		unddragelse (avoidance, tax avoidance, tax evasion), svig (sham transaction, tax evasion). (various references)

Dutch		fraude (fraud, tax evasion), belastingontwijking (tax evasion). (various references)

Farsi		گریززنی , گریز (Allusion, Desertion, Digression, Escape, Flight, Guy, Jink, Scamper, Scuttle, Subterfuge, Truancy), حیله (Deceit, Deception, Foul, Gaff, Gimmick, Guile, Humbug, Legerdemain, Monkeyshine, Ruse, Sleight, Train, Trepanation, Trick, Wile), تجاهل , طفره (Fetch, Jink, Procrastination, Stall, Subterfuge), بهانه (Alibi, Excuse, Fetch, Fiction, Mask, Peg, Plea, Pretense, Pretext, Purporst, Subterfuge). (various references)

Finnish		veruke (excuse, pretext, subterfuge). (various references)

French		fuite, fraude fiscale (tax evasion), fraude (tax evasion), dérobade, évasion. (various references)

German		umgehung (avoidance, by passing, bypass, by-pass, bypassing, circumvention, detour, diversion, getting round, going round, outflanking, ring road). (various references)

Greek		υπεκφυγή (elusion, loophole, prevarication, quibble, quirk, shift, stall, subterfuge, tergiversation). (various references)

Hebrew		עקיפ�" (bypass, circumvention, overtaking), חמיק�" (avoidance, dodging), חומק� ות, �"תחמקות (abscondence, dodge, duck), �"שתמטות (dodging responsibility, truancy), �"ערמ�" (cheating, deceiving, stacking), �"חי�" (abjudication, adjournment, deferment, postponement, rejection, repulsion, suspension). (various references)

Hungarian		kitérés (deflection, deflexion, digression, diversion, dodge, excursion, jink, precession, roundabout, yaw), megkerülés (encompassment), kikerülés (getting out, jink), kijátszás (delusion). (various references)

Indonesian		penghindaran (debarment, elusion), pengelakan (avoidance, deflection). (various references)

Italian		evasione (avoidance, breakaway, elopement, escape, flight, fuite, gaolbreak, gaolbreaking, get away, getaway, jailbreak, jailbreaking, tax avoidance, tax evasion, transaction). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		逃避 (escape, flight), 回避 (avoid), 忌避 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きひ (abuse, slander), に�' (escape, getaway), かいひ (avoid, membership fee, opening the door), いいのがれ (an excuse), いいぬけ (an excuse), とうひ (equal ratio, escape, flight, justice, pitchers fly, propriety, right or wrong, scalp, spruce tree, suppression of bandits). (various references)

Korean		기�"� (Avoiding, Evading). (various references)

Manx		shaghnys (adjournment, avoidance). (various references)

Pig Latin		evasionay

Portuguese		evasiva (ambages, dodge, dodgery, elusion, prevarication, quibble, quirk, salvo, shuffle, subterfuge, tergiversation), evasão (avoidance, escape, flying, tax avoidance), vaporizador (atomizer, pulverizer, spray, spray bottle, sprayer, vaporizer), rodeio (detour, indiscernible, meander, rodeo, roundabout, shuffle, sweep, tergiversation, winding), fraude (bilk, brogue, cheat, cross, deceit, deception, embezzlement, fraud, graft, guile, humbug, inverse, ruse, sham, skulduggery, spoof, tax evasion, toll fraud, trickery, wile), desculpa (apology, exculpation, excuse, justification, out, plea, pretext, satisfaction). (various references)

Romanian		evitare (avoidance, dodge, Parry), evaziune, eschivare (shirk), subterfugiu (quibble, quip, shift, subterfuge), ocolire (dodge, elusion, round, rounding, wheel), chichiţã (shift, stratagem, subterfuge). (various references)

Russian		уклонение (avoidance, elusion, error, jink, runaround). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		utaja (fraud), izbegavanje (avoid, avoidance, duck out, elusion). (various references)

Spanish		evasión (avoidance, dodge, escapade, escape, escapism, flight, prison breaking, tax avoidance). (various references)

Swedish		undanflykt (dodgery, excuse, pretext, prevarication, subterfuge, tergiversation). (various references)

Thai		การหลีกเลี่ยง (สิ่งที่ไม่�"ี), ข้ออ้าง (Scooby-Do). (various references)

Turkish		sakınma (avoidance, caution, forbearance, watchfulness), kaçamak (casual, casually, escapade, evasive, furtive, hanky panky, loophole, run, running, salvo, shift, stealthy, subterfuge, surreptitious), kaçırma (abduction, kidnapping, letting escape, missing, smuggling), kaçınma (abstention, abstinence, avoidance, avoiding, bolt, elusion, forbearance, sidestep, sparing), bahane (allegation, blind, cavil, cloak, cop out, cover, excuse, guise, peg, plea, pretence, pretext, putoff, rise, salvo, shift, stalking horse, subterfuge, veil). (various references)

Turkmen		sapalk. (various references)

Ukranian		ухиляння (jink, prevarication), виверт (afterthought, amphibology, amphiboly, circumvention, elusion, expedient, put off, quirk, shift, shuffle, wangle). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tránh (avoidance, jink, shy), sự thoái thác kẻ lẩn tránh, sự lẩn tránh, sự lảng tránh, mẹo thoái thác. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	campis, tergiversatio. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "evasion": evasions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Evasion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: easain, evansiana, evation, eversion, Evesdon, Evizzo, evosion, Evysdon, ivesian, jeevesian, Vaison. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "evasion" (pronounced ivā"zhun or ēvā"zhun)
5	-v ā" zh u n	invasion.
4	-ā" zh u n	abrasion, equation, occasion, persuasion, suasion.
3	-zh u n	allusion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, erosion, excision, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, incision, inclusion, incursion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occlusion, perversion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, seclusion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, transfusion, version, vision.
5	-v ā" zh u n	invasion.
4	-ā" zh u n	abrasion, equation, occasion, persuasion, suasion.
3	-zh u n	allusion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, erosion, excision, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, incision, inclusion, incursion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occlusion, perversion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, seclusion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, transfusion, version, vision.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-s-v"
	-1 letter: avions, envois, naives, navies, ovines, savine.
	-2 letters: aeons, anise, avens, avion, aviso, envoi, eosin, naevi, naive, naves, noise, novae, novas, oaves, ovens, ovine, savin, soave, vanes, veins, vinas, vines, vinos.
	-3 letters: aeon, ains, anes, anis, aves, avos, eons, ions, naoi, naos, nave, nevi, noes, nose, nova, ones, oven, sain, sane, save, sine, sone.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-s-v"
	+1 letter: aversion, evasions.
	+2 letters: anchovies, aversions, donatives, innovates, invocates, pervasion, venations, veronicas, versional, vexations, vinaceous, voidances.
	+3 letters: adenovirus, advections, antinovels, avoidances, carnivores, constative, deviations, elevations, estivation, evocations, insolvable, nervations, nonnatives, nonpassive, novitiates, novocaines, oversaving, overstrain, overtrains, pervasions, reinvasion, savoriness, sovranties, vanitories, vernations, videolands.
	+4 letters: aestivation, ambiversion, concavities, connivances, constatives, contrastive, covalencies, covariances, derivations, devastation, devotionals, eluviations, enervations, estivations, evacuations, evaluations, excavations, exuviations, inchoatives, inobservant, intravenous, invigorates, inviolacies, levigations, levitations, lovemakings, nominatives, nonabrasive, nonadhesive, nondeviants, noninvasive, novaculites, observation, overactions, overanxious, overcasting, overpassing, oversalting, oversaucing, oversoaking, overstating, overstaying, overstrains, overtasking, personative, preinvasion, previsional, reinvasions, renovations, reservation, revelations, reversional, revisionary, revocations, syncopative, vacationers, vainglories, variousness, vasopressin, vegetations, venerations, ventilators, vibraphones, visionaries, voluntaries.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 76 61 73 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110110 01100001 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#118 &#97 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0076 0061 0073 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
tax evasion	64	de evasion impuestos	3
citroen evasion	23	evasion line	3
income tax evasion	18	al capone evasion tax	3
air carte evasion france	15	evasion tributaria	3
evasion fiscal	14	escape evasion resistance survival	3
canal evasion	12	irs tax evasion	2
evasion	9	en evasion fiscal mexico	2
evasion reporting tax	7	canada evasion tax	2
tax evasion penalties	7	de evasion impuestos multas pagar por	2
evasion report tax	6	escape evasion navy resistance survival	2
escape and evasion	6	evasion sentence tax	2
cap evasion	6	canada evasion income tax	2
carte evasion	6	es evasion fiscal la que	2
evasion fiscal la	5	citroën evasion interior	2
abuse abused accuse accused accuses accusing arraigned arraigning arrest arrest arrested arson bankrupt bankruptcy burglar burglar burglary burglary charge charged civil conspiracy conspiracy conspire conspired conspires convict convict convicted conviction conviction counterfeit counterfeiting counterfeits crime crime criminal criminal defendant defendant defraud defrauded delist delisted embezzle embezzled embezzlement evasion exploit exploit exploitation exploited extorting extortion extortio	4	duty evasion jury	2
34 evasion	3	citroën evasion interieur	2
evasion online	3	dupri evasion jermaine tax	2
evasion technique	3	federal tax evasion	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Evasion

Definitions: Evasion

Evasion

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Evasion

Synonyms: Evasion

Synonyms within Context: Evasion

Avoidance

Concealment

Cunning

Dereliction of Duty

Escape

Falsehood

Nonobservance

Reasoning,

Untruth

Crosswords: Evasion

Modern Usage: Evasion

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Commercial Usage: Evasion

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Theater & Movies

Non-Fiction Usage: Evasion

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Evasion

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Usage Frequency: Evasion

Expressions: Evasion

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Evasion

Modern Translations: Evasion

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Rhyming with "Evasion"

Anagrams: Evasion

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Evasion

45 76 61 73 69 6F 6E

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01000101 01110110 01100001 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110

&#69 &#118 &#97 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110

0045 0076 0061 0073 0069 006F 006E

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