Synonym: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation, diversionary attack, recreation. Similar words: diversity, biodiversity, version, aversion, inversion, conversion, diverse, aspersion. Meaning: [daɪ'vɜːʃn] n. 1. an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates 2. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) 3. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack.
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31. This suggests that the forces both of trade creation and trade diversion have been at work.
32. That is why I described what happened earlier as a stupid procedural diversion.
33. Besides, all of this serves as a diversion from the urgent issues of the day.
34. Noting this possibility, Kasparov starts a diversion to deflect White's attention towards the other wing.
35. Oh, this was an artistic diversion of the streets for Mr Sammler when he was roused to it by some shock.
36. Take a short diversion to have a look at it. After a mile, the road passes through a small hamlet.
37. In this manner I restored many to their senses, with great increase in reputation, and still greater diversion for myself.
38. Steve's work has done much to erase the stigma of kite flying as a childish diversion.
39. The deterioration in the domestic country's terms of trade is the essence of trade diversion.
40. Scientology is a cereal-box religion, and reading Ron is an idle diversion that quickly becomes annoying.
41. Her harlequin sweaters and Fair Isle striped knit shirts were a nice diversion from the usual cable knits and ribbed turtlenecks.
42. The great cultural diversion of the country, and the conflicts which this gave rise to, found expression in popular song.
43. There is a short diversion from the main route between Attlebridge and Lenwade at present.
44. The smoke bombs were to create a diversion, he explained.
45. Four prisoners created a diversion to allow the others time to escape.
46. Easton was certainly aware of the diversion of funds into the military budget.
47. Polisario sources claimed that in a recent internal investigation he had been found guilty of corruption and diversion of funds.
48. Appropriate analysis of trade diversion is dependent upon the nature of the countries described by the model.
49. But many speakers saw the issue as a damaging diversion from Labour's efforts to win the next election.
50. The southwestern and south-eastern examples were apparently staggered slightly, accounting for the odd diversion of Ermine Street on the south-east.
51. When trade diversion arises, higher cost supplies from the union partner displace lower cost supplies from the rest of the world.
52. Coleraine Division Rascahan Bridge, one mile west of Limavady - temporary diversion around bridge.
53. The explanation is either imported marijuana or the diversion of inhalants such as glue and paint stripper from the workshops.
54. But this seemed to some one of my arrogance a diversion from the real business of writing and I declined.
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55. Certain forms of discomfort, certain forms of boredom, can be ignored or at least tolerated by means of diversion.
56. On Tuesday night, by way of diversion, we went off to see if the post hammer was ready.
57. Yet Piaget assures us that the free-ranging nature of symbolic play has an essentially functional value and is not simply a diversion.
58. A subsidiary raid would be carried out on Bagoush airfield to create as much of a diversion as possible.
59. A few questions about general financial transactions were asked and answered, and Meese then pointed out the paragraph about the diversion.
60. The odd piece of Giant Vallis provides a pleasant diversion from all that rock.
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