0 to stay away from someone or something:
I try to avoid supermarkets on Saturdays - they're always so busy.
Do you think Lukas is avoiding me? I haven't seen him all day.
[ + -ing verb ] I try to avoid going shopping on Saturdays.
The report studiously avoided any mention of the controversial plan.
The plane narrowly avoided disaster when one of the engines cut out on take-off.
I left the pub to avoid a fight (= prevent a fight from happening).
Unnecessary paperwork should be avoided (= prevented) at all costs.
1 to stay away from someone or something, or prevent something from happening, or not allow yourself to do something:
2 to try to prevent something bad from happening:
A spokeswoman for the company said it was hoping to avoid industrial action.
Understanding differing viewpoints is a good start toward avoiding conflict in the workplace.
3 to try not to do something, or to try to stay away from something:
If we set off early tomorrow morning we'll avoid most of the traffic.
We need to examine how an accident like this can be avoided in the future.
Excessive lettering should be avoided on the figure and should be inserted in the legend.
The next section introduces another device called a lexical entry automaton, which is an elaborated form of trunks, for avoiding the computability problem.
At this stage, acknowledgements, self-references and other forms of self-identification should be avoided.
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