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US
/əˈvɔɪdəns/
]
[ UK /ɐvˈɔɪdəns/ ]
[ UK /ɐvˈɔɪdəns/ ]
NOUN
- deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
How To Use avoidance In A Sentence
- Protection of skin from light exposure, photo-allergen avoidance, topical corticosteroids, oral nicotinamide, vitamine B complex and antihistamines were effective in most cases.
- The essence of this approach, perhaps, is the avoidance of process waste by using automation to avoid "information backflow".
- If you are venturing further abroad, wild animals and insects can present a deadly danger and avoidance is usually the key. Times, Sunday Times
- The other recurring problem is the avoidance of military service by privileged youth during peacetime and combat duty during wars.
- A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!): Writer's Block
- Here was a soft-pedalled, soft-grained performance, miraculous in its level of delicacy attained and avoidance of the precious. Times, Sunday Times
- We mutagenized a wild-type strain and sought animals that were defective in cultivation-temperature avoidance.
- For there is some degree of blindness and fear about these things, an avoidance of the spirit in athletics.
- Thousands of self-employed high earners face a crackdown as part of a new government drive against tax avoidance. Times, Sunday Times
- Management includes correction of fluid and electrolyte levels; avoidance of nephrotoxins; and kidney replacement therapy, when appropriate.