1 (especially BrE) a road that passes around a town or city rather than through the centre:
the western bypass around the town * the Newbury bypass
2 a medical operation on the heart in which blood is directed along a different route so that it does not flow through a part that is damaged or blocked; the new route that the blood takes:
heart bypass surgery * a triple bypass operation
verb [VN]
1 to go around or avoid a place:
A new road now bypasses the town.
2 to ignore a rule, an official system or sb in authority, especially in order to get sth done quickly:
They let us bypass the usual admissions procedure.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is bypass a noun, verb, or something else?
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