- (circumvent) besiege: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
- (circumvent) outwit: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
- (circumvent) hedge: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
- (circumvention) the act of evading by going around
- Circumvention Music is an artist-run independent record label specializing in improvised and experimental music. The label releases music that focuses on discovery and draws from a variety of historically emergent traditions.
- (circumvent) to avoid or get around something; to bypass; to surround or besiege; to outwit or outsmart
- (Circumvent) (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.
- (CIRCUMVENT) To avoid, bypass or get around by artful maneuvering. For example, after disclosing an invention, a person or company knowledgeable in the law (or one that chooses to ignore the law) moves forward with the invention without the inventor.
- (circumvent) [ sur-kuhm-VENT, SUR-kuhm-vent ]
- (Circumvention) the act of bypassing a technological device or system (passwords, encryption, watermarking) to gain access to or copy a work protected by copyright.
- (CIRCUMVENTION) torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. Tech. Dict. It has the same sense in the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 49 et 155; Id. 12, 6, 6, 2; Id. 41, 2, 34. Vide Parphrasis.
- (Circumvention) A temporary fix or work-a-round allowing the client to continue work in spite of a known problem or defect. [barely limping along] [bubblegum and bailing wire fix]
- (Circumvention) Actions taken by traders to avoid paying duties.
- (Circumvention) Cutting out the people who introduced you to the opportunity or broker, with no intent to reward them if you are successful.
- (Circumvention) Resources or tools (e.g. web proxies) that allow users to bypass internet censorship from filters or blockades.
- (Circumvention) ease of use of a substitute.
- (Circumvention) is how easy it is to fool the authentication system.
- (circumvention) Getting around commitments in the WTO such as commitments to limit agricultural export subsidies. Includes avoiding quotas and other restrictions by altering the country of origin of a product; measures taken by exporters to evade anti-dumping or countervailing duties.