0 present participle of circumvent
1 to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally:
Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulations.
Or take the way in which many of us feel comfortable circumventing the ban against lying.
Some will not want to reveal personal data, and circumventing that reluctance may call for subtlety.
Technologies are implicitly functional, benefiting society by solving a problem or circumventing a functional constraint.
Instead of circumventing the legal process, the regime permitted many trials.
Others still managed to find subtle ways of circumventing the censor.
Underscoring the contemporary sense of technological limitations to all sound exploitation is that aleatoric methods were developed partly as an explicit strategy for circumventing them.
One consideration is that earlier generations of women attempted and were at least partly successful in circumventing the restrictions of married women's property acts.
My way of circumventing the objection above should by now be clear.
