circumvention
noun/ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈvɛnʃən/
Etymology From Latin circumventio, equivalent to circumvent + -ion.
1
The act of evading or going around (bypassing).
2
The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception.
- a school in which he learns sly circumvention1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- anticircumvention
- Related terms
- circumvent, circumvental