0 a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do something -- （協定或法律的）漏洞，空子，破綻
tax loopholes 稅法的漏洞
The company employed lawyers to find loopholes in environmental protection laws. 該公司僱用律師來尋找環境保護法的漏洞。
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.
