Synonym: beat, beleaguer, besiege, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, hem in, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt, surround. Similar words: circumspect, circumstance, circumference, circumspection, circumstantial, circumlocution, circumnavigate, circumscription. Meaning: [‚sɜːkəm'vent] 
v. 1. surround so as to force to give up 2. beat through cleverness and wit 3. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).
v. 1. surround so as to force to give up 2. beat through cleverness and wit 3. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). 
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1, Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.
2, We went north in order to circumvent the mountains.
3, Military planners tried to circumvent the treaty.
4, The king tried to circumvent his enemies.
5, Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulations.
6, They opened an office abroad in order to circumvent the tax laws.
7, They circumvent waterfalls by wriggling through the sodden vegetation on the banks.
8, Witchcraft thus can not be easily applied to circumvent or violate customary norms of behaviour.
9, Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.
10, The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living.
11, The crook tried to circumvent the little girl.
12, This is a deliberate attempt to circumvent my authority.
13, Roosevelt occasionally attempted to circumvent him.
14, Still,[http://sentencedict.com/circumvent.html] Kane would try to circumvent her parents'efforts.
15, Influencing the factors that circumvent integrated change control so that only approved changes are implemented.
16, The fleet plans to circumvent an Israeli economic blockade on the Palestinian territory, despite Israeli warnings not to do so.
17, The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.
18, A few big companies have opened offices abroad in order to circumvent our tax laws.
19, It seeks to put legislative power directly into the hands of the people and circumvent the long-standing institutions of representative government.
20, Only rarely, therefore, can we identify examples of agencies set up explicitly to circumvent problems of this kind.
21, But not all the skills and ingenuity of law draftsmen could wholly circumvent the deviousness of ancient land law.
22, However, like its predecessors, this reform act provided ample loopholes to those who wish to circumvent the legislation.
23, Most garment workers make minimum wage, and some shops try to circumvent that.
24, His feet and hands kept striking stone corners, sharp turns, and massive columns difficult to circumvent.
25, I guess Wilkinson was furious that his best performer would circumvent him and talk to me instead.
26, A more difficult question is whether employers can rely upon collective agreements to circumvent the need to make job reassignment.
27, R. J. Reynolds, which has also rebranded Pall Mall Lights to Pall Mall Blues, told the Globe it was not attempting to circumvent the new regulations by altering their popular products.
28, Don't act anxious and unable to do anything, find ways to circumvent the problem.
29, The current API for coroutines does not offer direct support for reusing a coroutine, but we can circumvent this limitation.
30, Madonna's image was hit by claims she used her fame and wealth to circumvent Malawian adoption rules.
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