evasion

evasion
n
1. avoidance, dodge, dodging,.elusion, slip; shake, go-by, bypass, escape; flight, retreat; shunning, shirking, Sl. goldbricking, malingering; ignoring, neglect, omission.
2. prevarication, quibble, quibbling, equivocation; roundabout, shuffling, hedging, shift, skirting, beat ing around the bush, hemming and hawing; qualification, cop-out; tergiversation, vacillation, shilly-shally, ambivalence; ambiguity, amphiboly, doublespeak, double talk, palter, weasel words; sophistry, deception, deceit, chicanery.

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  • évasion — [ evazjɔ̃ ] n. f. • XIIIe; bas lat. evasio, de evadere → s évader 1 ♦ Action de s évader, de s échapper d un lieu où l on était enfermé. « Elle se sent observée nuit et jour avec vigilance; une tentative d évasion l exposerait à une réclusion… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Evasion — Évasion Pour les articles homonymes, voir Évasion (homonymie). grillage et barbelés d une prison américaine …   Wikipédia en Français

  • evasión — sustantivo femenino 1. Acción y resultado de evadir o evadirse: Aquella famosa evasión se ha llevado al cine. Busca la evasión mediante la lectura de novelas. La evasión de impuestos es perseguida por Hacienda. Locuciones 1. evasión de capital… …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • Evasion — is the act of avoiding something.It may refer to: *Evasion (law), to avoid government mandate through specious means (tax evasion, for example) *Evasion (book), a zine turned book published by CrimethInc., an anarchist group *Evasion… …   Wikipedia

  • Évasion 44 — Auteur Yvonne Pagniez Genre Roman Pays d origine  France Éditeur éditions Flammarion …   Wikipédia en Français

  • evasion — eva·sion /i vā zhən/ n 1: a means of evading 2: the act or an instance of evading see also tax evasion Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • evasion — evasion, evasiveness Evasiveness is the quality a person has of being evasive, whereas evasion is the process or result of this quality, or an instance of it: • He has been in the trenches too long not to be a master at mixing sincerity with… …   Modern English usage

  • evasion — early 15c., from M.Fr. évasion and directly from L.L. evasionem (nom. evasio) a going out, from pp. stem of L. evadere to escape (see EVADE (Cf. evade)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • evasion — Evasion. s. f. v. Action par laquelle on s evade. Il se sauva habilement des prisons, & aprés son evasion il se retira en lieu de seureté …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • evasión — (Del lat. evasĭo, ōnis). 1. f. Efugio para evadir una dificultad. 2. Acción y efecto de evadir o evadirse. de evasión. loc. adj. Dicho de una obra literaria o cinematográfica, de un programa televisivo o radiofónico, etc.: Que tienen como… …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • evasion — e*va sion ([ e]*v[=a] zh[u^]n), n. [L. evasio: cf. F. [ e]vasion. See {Evade}.] The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. [1913 Webster] Thou . . . by… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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