"evasive action" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "evasive actions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
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      },
      "expansion": "evasive action (usually uncountable, plural evasive actions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17",
          "text": "The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Physical movement performed in order to avoid a collision with something (such as a vehicle or missile)."
      ],
      "id": "en-evasive_action-en-noun-~TslfU2T",
      "links": [
        [
          "movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "collision",
          "collision"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dodge"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "evasive action"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "evasive actions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "evasive action (usually uncountable, plural evasive actions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17",
          "text": "The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Physical movement performed in order to avoid a collision with something (such as a vehicle or missile)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "collision",
          "collision"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dodge"
    }
  ],
  "word": "evasive action"
}