0 a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do something:
tax loopholes
The company employed lawyers to find loopholes in environmental protection laws.
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:
They plan to close a loophole that allows businesses to avoid paying off redundant workers.
a corporate/legal/tax loophole He has pledged to close a tax loophole that has allowed US firms to take business and jobs abroad.
a loophole in sth Determined landlords found it easy to exploit loopholes in the law.
Although establishing new schools is not permitted, there is always a loophole that can be exploited.
Another loophole arose when a pensioner moved and transferred to a different post office.
The government did its best to close down this constitutional loophole, telling petitioners that any necessary action would be taken by ministers.
Technology cannot close every loophole that exists in the social fabric.
Other lucrative areas were to be found in land grabbing, urban real estate, and the exploitation of tax loopholes.
And this loophole may be no loophole at all, depending upon the details of natural physical laws' metaphysical implementations of indeterminism.
Not surprisingly, the law has its share of loopholes that will operate in the bureaucracy's favor.
However, the one-atom-one-event assumption has a loophole: if we cannot duplicate atoms, let us duplicate the events themselves.
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