"circumvention" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin circumventio.",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "The act of evading or going around (bypassing)."
      ],
      "id": "en-circumvention-en-noun-vs141Kvz",
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
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        [
          "going around",
          "go around"
        ]
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "bypassing",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "circumvalació"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "bypassing",
          "word": "Umgehung"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "bypassing",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "circumvalación"
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          "ref": "1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "a school in which he learns sly circumvention",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception"
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "prevail",
          "prevail"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "deception"
        },
        {
          "word": "fraud"
        },
        {
          "word": "imposture"
        },
        {
          "word": "delusion"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "22 78",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "act of prevailing",
          "word": "Überlistung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 78",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "kapaṭa",
          "sense": "act of prevailing",
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            "masculine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "कपट"
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    {
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          "text": "a school in which he learns sly circumvention",
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        "The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "bypassing",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "circumvalació"
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      "sense": "bypassing",
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    {
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      "sense": "bypassing",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "circumvalación"
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      "sense": "act of prevailing",
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      "roman": "kapaṭa",
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      "word": "कपट"
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