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Tax avoidance(finance)
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avoidance(dictionary)
Tax Avoidance(money)
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AVOIDANCE, eccl(law)
avoidance behaviour(encyclopedia)
avoidance, zone of(encyclopedia)
Avoidance - Fencing(gambling)

avoidance (iou)



avoidance noun. LME.
[from AVOID + -ANCE.]
The action of emptying; ejection, excretion; removal; dismissal; departure (from, out of). LME-M17.
J. Hayward By voluntary avoidance out of the Realme. Donne The King having made avoydance of those hee esteemed not necessary.
The occurrence of a vacancy (of an office, benefice, etc.); the right to fill up a vacancy. arch. LME.
G. F. Maclear On each avoidance of the abbacy, to fill up the situation from founder's kin.
The action of keeping away or refraining from something; escaping, evasion; shunning, holding aloof from someone or something; prevention. LME.
tax avoidance: see TAX noun.
Donne For avoydance of scandall is Divine law. Listener The avoidance of marked peaks and troughs in the amplitude-frequency characteristic. A. Lurie The same avoidance of all topics which might annoy them.
Chiefly Law. The action of making void or of no effect; invalidation, annulment. E17.
H. H. Milman The obsequious clergy..pronounced at once the avoidance of the marriage.
An outlet. Only in E17.