ALL meanings of circumvention
cir·cum·vent
C c - verb with object circumvention to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues. 1
- verb with object circumvention to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting: He circumvented capture by anticipating their movements. 1
- verb with object circumvention to surround or encompass, as by stratagem; entrap: to circumvent a body of enemy troops. 1
- noun circumvention bypassing, going around sth 1
- noun circumvention avoidance of sth 1
- noun circumvention The act of evading by going around (bypassing). 1
- noun circumvention The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. 0