noun [C,U]
1 the act of avoiding sb or of avoiding sth that you are supposed to do:
His behaviour was an evasion of his responsibilities as a father. * She's been charged with tax evasion.
2 a statement that sb makes that avoids dealing with sth or talking about sth honestly and directly:
His speech was full of evasions and half-truths.
seealsoEVADE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for evasion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does evasion appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — evasion appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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