0 past simple and past participle of circumvent
1 to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally:
Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulations.
Moreover, ' forestry laws and policies are contested, circumvented, selectively applied, interpreted and reinterpreted in their making and application ' (p. 56).
Some patterns, nonetheless, do produce problems during surgery, but these can be circumvented by appropriate modifications in surgical technique.
Thus, current laws outlawing the sale of tobacco products to minors will not have their intended effect if they can be easily circumvented.
Nevertheless, this negative result can be circumvented for certain classes of graphs.
Before the nineteenth century the right of the individual to the ownership of land was in many ways circumvented to favour the family and relatives.
One of the strengths of the measurement of resistance to change is that ordinarily the potential problem of different units of behavior (operants) is circumvented.
While one can argue that components of the research could be circumvented or shortened today, this development remains a prototype for such vaccine projects.
Interestingly, the law can be circumvented in a way to favour the runaway couples.
