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.
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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61. By late afternoon Glover was feeling glad not to be worn out for the mild diversion of Halloween.
62. However there will also be export trade diversion when a union country supplies a partner country in place of the imports from third countries.
63. The campaign has been denounced by some leftwing union activists as a diversion from the need for industrial action.
64. In a letter to Mrs Coutts he described the horror and the misery from which the mock election was a welcome diversion.
65. People who used to rent videos regularly are now looking for diversion elsewhere.
66. These two effects, output creation and output diversion, create an ambiguity about the welfare effects of trade.
67. Feed the sitting tenants to act as a diversion when adding new fish to an aquarium. 3.
68. His thick-set holler lifts what might otherwise have been a cool but minor diversion into a work of real significance.
69. Loneliness and Boredom Perhaps the most serious problem of all was simply that there was not enough adventure or diversion.
70. It was therefore a diversion from some crucial issues, such as sentencing and prison overcrowding.
71. Ian and Barbara will lead a small expedition into the city from the rear, while the larger group creates a diversion.
72. Earl, a classmate of North's from the Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.
73. This is perhaps the place to take a little botanical diversion.
74. Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine.
75. Despite this diversion the board grew significantly showing an overall increase in income of 20% this year.
76. Rioters created a diversion by setting fire to vehicles close to the police station.
77. In his videotaped testimony, Clinton denied any knowledge of the loan diversion.
78. It is not necessary to elaborate this diversion into industrial sociology unduly.
79. Some of the prisoners started a fight as a diversion to give the others time to escape.
80. On his way back he made a diversion and called in at Crosthwaite Church to let the cool sanctuary complete his cure.
81. Like that other Magister this aircraft is supposed to have an odd, unpleasant nose-down pitching diversion with excess sideslip.
82. From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain, Pico do Arieiro, at 1,818m.
83. And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.
84. But a half mile down the road after some other diversion[sentence dictionary], I lose him.
85. The initial excavations for the diversion tunnels had begun on May 16, 1931.
86. They can be seen as a roaring success, a qualified success, or an expensive diversion.
87. Planning - General notes Plan for likely direction of the initial approach to destination and each en-route diversion airfield.
88. Usually there is lively chatter before the evening's diversion.
89. The whole argument is a diversion.
90. Horse racing was also an occasional diversion.
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