Usually means: Avoidance or escape through deceit.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. evasion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. evasion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. evasion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. evasion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. evasion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Evasion, evasion: Wordnik
  7. evasion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. evasion: Wiktionary
  9. evasion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. evasion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. evasion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. evasion: Dictionary.com
  13. evasion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. evasion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Evasion (book), Evasion (ethics), Evasion (law), Evasion (network security), Evasion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Evasion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. evasion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. evasion: Rhymezone
  19. evasion, evasin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. evasion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. evasion: Free Dictionary
  22. evasion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. evasion: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Evasion (philosophy), evasion: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. evasion: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. evasion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evasion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See evasions as well.)

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noun:  The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

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