0 past simple and past participle of duck
1 to move your head or the top part of your body quickly down, especially to avoid being hit:
He said that we had ducked the issue of pedestrian protection, but we certainly have not.
That point cannot be ducked if we are to reach a settlement.
Most of the arguments contained in it are familiar to this place; and some difficult decisions have plainly been ducked.
We have not ducked those issues but faced them head-on with appropriate and proportionate action.
Decisions have to be taken and cannot be ducked.
Again, we should be talking about accountability, which is consistently ducked, or so it seems to the outsider.
They have ducked the issue on every occasion and have said that such bargaining is separate and concerns individual rights.
There is a choice here, and it is not one that can be ducked.
