Noun(1) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth(2) the deliberate act of failing to pay money(3) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery(4) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation(5) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do(6) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver(7) escape(8) avoidance
Noun(1) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth(2) the deliberate act of failing to pay money(3) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery(4) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation(5) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do(6) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver(7) escape(8) avoidance
(1) their adroit evasion of almost all questions(2) We plotted our methods of evasion like we were planning a covert military operation, carefully mapping out alternate routes of entry and exit.(3) Such an escape strategy of unpredictable movements is known as Protean evasion , after the Greek river god who eluded capture by continually changing form.(4) Those same acts are no less acts of evasion , undertaken in England, when the restriction evaded happens to be at a border in Austria.(5) In the l960s, the draft was famously open to evasion and manipulation, as that large flock of chickenhawks proves.(6) When I fled to Britain and claimed asylum in 2003, the Home Office acknowledged I could be jailed for a period of three months to five years for draft evasion .(7) And reductions in income tax levied would reduce the national sport of avoidance and, far too frequently, evasion .(8) The difference between the avoidance and evasion has been described by the British Revenue as u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510the width of a prison wallu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(9) Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion .(10) This exception does not apply to advice concerning listed transactions or dealing with the principal purpose of tax avoidance or evasion .(11) The office said bank secrecy did not stop the investigation of tax avoidance and evasion .(12) Most were suspected of draft evasion , desertion, or sabotage.(13) If rates are too high there is avoidance and evasion .(14) Finally, figures from the Inland Revenue provide clues as to the scale and prevalence of fraud in tax avoidance and evasion by individuals and businesses.(15) But this evasion of conflict still remained a problem.(16) Every tax system is subject to some evasion and avoidance, and the extent of such behaviors is an appropriate concern.