circumvention

circumvent | American Dictionary

circumvent
verb[ T ]
us/ˌsɜr·kəmˈvent/
to avoid something by going around it:
Young people still want to circumvent their parents’ control.

Examples of circumvent

circumvent
Through technology, the phonograph both circumvented and reinforced the cultural hierarchy present in live musical performance.
Geminates and partial geminates circumvent the restriction, because the place features are not uniquely parsed as attributes of a segment in the coda position.
One way to circumvent the problems related to membrane proteins is to express a truncated form of the membrane protein.
At many regional exchanges, such differences were silenced to circumvent conflict between the participants.
Prominent among these new forms is subcontracted production, which allows employers to bypass trade unions and circumvent restrictions in firing workers and lowering wages.
Methodologically, analyzing the data by age at assessment would help circumvent, at least in part, the limitation of skipping certain years in data collection.
These international standards may circumvent or break deadlocks in domestic policymaking.
Moreover, ' forestry laws and policies are contested, circumvented, selectively applied, interpreted and reinterpreted in their making and application ' (p. 56).
Similarly, patronage politics circumvent the electoral mechanism, because votes then indicate the preferences of the patron rather than the voter.
Some patterns, nonetheless, do produce problems during surgery, but these can be circumvented by appropriate modifications in surgical technique.
Thus, current laws outlawing the sale of tobacco products to minors will not have their intended effect if they can be easily circumvented.
We circumvent this problem by using this measurement and combining it with other known transformations.
Or take the way in which many of us feel comfortable circumventing the ban against lying.
Market actors may use their opportunities for broadening their sphere of activity to circumvent public policies that would impose regulatory costs on them.
Nevertheless, this negative result can be circumvented for certain classes of graphs.
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