avoidance — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.

   Uso

   • incontável
   • usually

   Sinônimos

   discommendationshunningsilent treatment

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (1)

   At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. The act of annulling; annulment.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • incontável
   • usually

3. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant, specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • incontável
   • usually

4. The act of dismissing a person.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • incontável
   • usually

5. The act of quitting a position or benefice.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • incontável
   • usually

6. The course by which anything (especially water) is carried off.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • incontável
   • usually

   Exemplos

   In the Upper Gallery too I wish that there may be, if the Place will yield it, some Fountains running in divers Places from the Wall, with some fine Avoidances.

Substantivo

1. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

   Sinônimos

   turning awayshunningdodging

   Termos mais gerais

   rejection