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.
In this way, he circumvented ordinary procedures in order to rule.
Often in physical applications, this problem is circumvented by imposing suitable periodic boundary conditions.
The rights of women (be they widows or daughters) in a deceased man's property, may, however, be legally circumvented in several ways.
The effective insulation of the process of economic policy-making circumvented earlier policy stalemates generated by defiant corporate interests.
In short, syntactic structures and derivations cannot be circumvented in an account of quantifiers and their scopes, however much we may rely on prosody.
The curse of dimensionality can be circumvented to some extent by restricting the class of functions under consideration.
The difficulty is circumvented by constructing an acceptable configuration which is equipollent to the prescribed one.
Interestingly, the law can be circumvented in a way to favour the runaway couples.
