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avoid

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avoid answering

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for evade

to get away from (a pursuer)

to avoid fulfilling or answering completely

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Synonyms for evade

avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

escape, either physically or mentally

practice evasion

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use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

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In that instance, Beg's fraud on the company would have caused the company to file a false return, but a court could not assume that the company intended to evade a tax by filing that false return.
A Belgrade prosecutor appealed Friday against the acquittal of 10 people who had been charged with helping Mladic evade justice, demanding a retrial, the Tanjug news agency reported.
The fourth chapter surveys the range of strategies Chinese immigrants developed to evade the laws, first trying to overturn them, and then using the government's own paper trail against itself, working the system by hiring lawyers, courting white allies, coaching each other through the detailed interrogations conducted by immigration officials, and trading tips on how to persuade immigrant inspectors that they were either merchants or native-born citizens, two groups that were supposed to be (but, as Lee shows, often were not) exempt from the exclusion laws.
"The underground economy, the shadow economy where transactions are informal and made in cash to evade taxes, has apparently been growing in many countries in the last half century.
However, the virus has evolved to evade the immune system, which vaccines themselves are intended to activate.
He helped seven clients evade a total of 260 million yen in income tax between 1993 and 1995 by reporting they had made losses in a U.S.
Former trainer Geoff Huffer was jailed for 15 months at Croydon Crown Court yesterday for attempting to evade paying duty on a consignment of alcohol imported from Europe.
Offshore havens allow rich people and businesses to evade taxes.
Stopping vehicles that seek to avoid roadblocks and using false signs warning of drug checkpoints ahead for the sole purpose of justifying the detention of motorists making obvious attempts to evade nonexistent roadblocks are rather controversial, yet legally defensible law enforcement strategies.
16 Kyodo Police on Tuesday arrested the president and two employees of oil refiner-wholesaler Shinko in Fukuoka Prefecture on suspicion of conspiring to evade tax totaling 410 million yen.
Earlier in the book, he writes, "The Irancontra affair involved various attempts to evade or subvert laws, established procedures, and intragovernmental traditions (thin reeds, these) of civility.' But which laws?
These are the kind of taxes that no one can evade, and are paid out of personal incomes.
5 (ANI): Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said that the Congress party is disrupting the proceeding of the Lok Sabha to evade a discussion on the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam.