Synonyms for évasion
ɪˈveɪ ʒənévasion

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1. evasionnoun

   Synonyms:
   subterfuge, shift, equivocation, shuffling, prevarication

2. evasionnoun

   The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

   Synonyms:
   subterfuge, prevarication, shift, shuffling, equivocation

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1. evasion

   Synonyms:
   prevarication, shuffle, fencing, sheet, subterfuge, quibble, equivocation

   Antonyms:
   answer, counterargument, grappling

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1. evasion, equivocationnoun

   a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

   Synonyms:
   tergiversation, evasiveness, dodging, escape, equivocation, nonpayment, evasion, prevarication

2. evasion, nonpaymentnoun

   the deliberate act of failing to pay money

   "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"

   Synonyms:
   default, equivocation, escape, evasion, nonpayment, dodging, nonremittal

3. evasion, escape, dodgingnoun

   nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

   "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"

   Synonyms:
   leakage, evasion, equivocation, nonpayment, turning away, dodge, escapism, shunning, flight, safety valve, escape, escape cock, dodging, leak, relief valve, avoidance, escape valve, scheme, outflow

4. evasionnoun

   the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

   Synonyms:
   equivocation, escape, nonpayment, dodging

Matched Categories

1. • Commerce
   • Escape
   • Misrepresentation
   • Negligence

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1. evasionnoun

   Synonyms:
   shift, subterfuge, equivocation, prevarication, quibble, tergiversation, shuffling, sophistical excuse, disingenuous escape

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1. evasionnoun

   Synonyms:
   evading, eluding, escape, baffling, foiling, prevarication, equivocation, sophistry, tergiversation, subterfuge, dodge, excuse

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1. List of paraphrases for "evasion":

   fraud, escape, avoidance, évasion, prevarication, jailbreak, circumvention

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1. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry.

2. The CEO:

   My inability to convince anyone that these arrangements were not put in place for reasons of tax evasion have caused reputational damage to the bank. But the fact is I've complied with the tax laws.

3. Carsten Schneider:

   If David Cameron still wants to be taken seriously personally and politically in the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion, Britain needs to close the loopholes in its own country immediately.

4. Eric LeCompte:

   The Financing for Development outcomes can curb corruption, tax evasion and unsustainable debts in the developing world, if we succeed in changing tax, trade and debt policies, we can raise trillions of dollars to address poverty.

5. Pascal Saint-Amans:

   The tax world will not be the same before and after this, we are moving into this new era where massive tax planning, massive tax avoidance is over. It will be much more difficult, much more costly and it (profit shifting) will become evasion and no more avoidance.