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loophole
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons
Wikipedia
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Loophole is a 1981 British heist film , directed by John Quested , and starring Albert Finney , Martin Sheen , Susannah York , Jonathan Pryce , Colin Blakely and Tony Doyle . It was written by Jonathan Hales , based upon the novel by Robert Pollock. Music ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect. 2 A slit in a castle wall. Later: any similar window for shooting a weapon or letting in light. vb. (context military English) To ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE legal ▪ Foods to boost your physique, your intelligence or your psyche are already taking advantage of this legal loophole . ▪ This legal loophole has proven lucrative for the farm giants. ■ NOUN tax ▪ Banks are ...
Usage examples of loophole.
There are loopholes, and a technically sophisticated adolescent will be able to defeat them.
And there are always profiteers exploiting loopholes, sneaking adware materials onto private property and then wrapping themselves up in the law.
Tunisian agribiz before coming to Loophole, my masterpiece which ended my apprenticeship to Eggplant Jackson.
The central gatehouse was flanked by two defensive towers, both of them loopholed to sweep the exterior of the gatehouse with arquebus and light artillery fire.
From the rude loophole of a window that projected from the old Cunzie Neuk, the crippled laddie could see only the shadowy tombs and the long gray wall of the two kirks, through the sunny haze.
Just then we came to a ditch about ten feet wide, and full of water, on the other side of which was a loopholed stone wall eight feet high, and with sharp flints plentifully set in mortar on the coping.
There was a row of arched loopholes or windows about four feet wide and five feet high, spaced quite symmetrically along the points of the star and at its inner angles, and with the bottoms about four feet from the glaciated surface.
Sometimes they came so close to the wall that they were hewing at the gate with their war-axes and thrusting their spears through the loopholes.
British ships long ago had proven the ineffectualness of the fixed cannons set in masonry of the loopholes of these forts.
Mostly they seem to study and take advantage of bureaucratic and jurisprudential loopholes, quite legally enabling their clients to stick it to their ex-husbands or deadbeat creditors or whomever.
I descended, minding carefully where I went for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry.
Cassy had remarked the young man from her loophole in the garret, and seen him bear away the body of Tom, and observed with secret exultation, his rencontre with Legree.
I was spared the unwelcome task by none other than Queen Ullanoth, who had scried the little boys from a distance with the powerful moonstone sigil named Subtle Loophole.
Loophole sigil of late, but my ordinary scrying reveals him to be in a state of unusual excitement.
No ordinary talent is able to scry the moonstones, but her Subtle Loophole sigil can.