Crossword clues for evasion
evasion
- Unsatisfying reply to a question
- Dodger's specialty
- Waffling, e.g.
- Debater's ploy
- Political tactic
- A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- The act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- Attempt to escape
- Avoidance by subterfuge
- Dodging a positive answer to “Do you spend?” after reflection
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
evasion \e*va"sion\ ([-e]*v[=a]"zh[u^]n), n. [L. evasio: cf. F. The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more.
--Milton.
Syn: Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication; equivocation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French évasion and directly from Late Latin evasionem (nominative evasio) "a going out," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin evadere "to escape" (see evade).
Wiktionary
n. The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
WordNet
n. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: equivocation]
the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment" [syn: nonpayment] [ant: payment]
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" [syn: escape, dodging]
the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
Wikipedia
Evasion is a book that spun off from a zine of the same name. It was published by CrimethInc. in 2003. The book comprises 108 pages of slightly revised text from the original zine (95% of which is retained) along with 162 pages of new material. The author is not named in the book, but is referred to elsewhere as "Mack", "the Evasion Kid", or "Mack Evasion." He later wrote a column in the zine heartattaCk .
Evasion is a first person account of the author's travels and means of survival. He survives by dumpster diving, shoplifting, return fraud, and various other "scams" he employs to get whatever money he needs. He travels by hitchhiking and train hopping, and relates adventures he has had such as gate crashing at music venues, attending hardcore punk concerts, and being employed as a professional shoplifter by a middle-class family, among other things.
In law, the Doctrine of Evasion is a fundamental public policy. Whereas a person may legitimately plan affairs so as to avoid the incidence of obligations or liabilities imposed by the law, no one is allowed to evade the operation of otherwise mandatory provisions once duties and liabilities have been properly imposed or incurred. It is also a common principle in conflict of laws.
Evasion may refer to:
- Évasion, a Canadian French-language travel and adventure television channel
- Évasion FM, a French local radio station
- Evasion (ethics), a deceptive act
- Evasion (law), to avoid government mandate through specious means (tax evasion, for example)
- Evasion (book), a book adapted from a zine of the same title
- Evasion (network security), techniques to by-pass network security devices
- Evasi0n, a jailbreaking tool for iOS devices
- Citroën Evasion, a Eurovan minivan
In network security, evasion is bypassing an information security device in order to deliver an exploit, attack, or other form of malware to a target network or system, without detection. Evasions are typically used to counter network-based intrusion detection and prevention systems (IPS, IDS) but can also be used to by-pass firewalls. A further target of evasions can be to crash a network security device, rendering it in-effective to subsequent targeted attacks.
Evasion is, in ethics, an act that deceives by stating a true statement that is irrelevant or leads to a false conclusion.
For instance, a man knows that another man is in a room in the building because he heard him, but in answer to a question, says, "I have not seen him," thereby falsely implying that he does not know.
Evasion is described as a way to fulfill an obligation to tell the truth while keeping secrets from those not entitled to know the truth, but is considered unethical unless there are grave reasons for withholding the truth.
Evasions are closely related to equivocations and mental reservations; indeed, some statements fall under both descriptions.
Usage examples of "evasion".
She was not surprised by the evasion, but she gave his chest hair an admonitory little tug anyway.
At last he had given his grievance an airing, and compared with his previous treatment rude letters, curt telephone calls, and ignored requests for information smooth evasions were a decided improvement.
Classic evasion tactics called for him to go deep, forcing the torpedo to follow him down, leaving hard knuckles in the water as he went and ejecting decoys and noisemakers.
When evasion and repression have obstructed the integrative process, the task of reason and awareness is to remove those obstructions.
Steve Rubell, the Studio 54 co-owner who had recently pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion.
Organized science had tried every tactic of distortion, evasion, misrepresentation, intimidation, vilification, and suppression of evidence to slay the monster that threatened the entire foundation of the collective uniformitarian worldview and mind-set.
President Towney is under arrest by civil warrant, charged with misappropriation of funds and tax evasion.
Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning.
Only the ballcarrier, one man, could attempt to use evasion and finesse in avoiding the primal impact.
A Jewish Rabbin relates the following conversation, as exultingly as if the quibbling evasion on which it turns positively settled the question itself, which in fact it does not approach.
Evasion had required help from Sethvir and Luhaine, their paired strengths backed by the mighty defenses laid into Althain Tower.
All human offences, the whole system of dishonesty, evasion, circumventing, forbidden indulgence, and intriguing ambition, in which men are struggling with each other, will be looked upon by a thoughtful Mason, not merely as a scene of mean toils and strifes, but as the solemn conflicts of immortal minds, for ends vast and momentous as their own being.
Romans with a repetition of claims, evasions, and inroads, which they undertook without reflection, and terminated without glory.
The notes revived in Richard and Ada a general impression that they both had, without quite knowing how they came by it, that their cousin Jarndyce could never bear acknowledgments for any kindness he performed and that sooner than receive any he would resort to the most singular expedients and evasions or would even run away.
First it was Agnew with the tax evasion and then it was Dukakis with the tank.