0 a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do something: --
The company employed lawyers to find loopholes in environmental protection laws.
tax loopholes
1 an opportunity to legally avoid an unpleasant responsibility, usually because of a mistake in the way rules or laws have been written: --
2 a failure to include something in an agreement or law, which allows someone to do something illegal or to avoid doing something: --
a loophole in sth Determined landlords found it easy to exploit loopholes in the law.
a corporate/legal/tax loophole He has pledged to close a tax loophole that has allowed US firms to take business and jobs abroad.
They plan to close a loophole that allows businesses to avoid paying off redundant workers.
The term ' loophole ' was used frequently at the time.
Any approach which focuses on procedure as a route to justice25 (municipal or global) has the option of pointing to that category as a 'loophole'.
One remedy for this is to close the loophole by incorporating restrictions on environmental policy into trade agreements.
As a result, many loopholes which were intended to be closed, survived or were closed only after longer transitional periods.
It too, however, has a loophole; the use of calmative (riot-control) agents for law enforcement is not covered.
Without a central regulating body, insufficient evaluation may lead to approval of unethical practices and, eventually, procedural loopholes may be used intentionally.
Extradition law was complex and provided alleged war criminals with legal loopholes through which escape might be possible.
However, the one-atom-one-event assumption has a loophole: if we cannot duplicate atoms, let us duplicate the events themselves.
