evasion

From Middle French évasion, from Late Latin evasionem (accusative of evasio).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈveɪʒən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʒən
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

evasion (countable and uncountable, plural evasions)

1. The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
   • 2011, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals, page 99:

     In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.

• equivocation
• prevarication
• shift
• subterfuge
• shuffling

• tax evasion

• evasion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.