circumvent
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To find a way around an obstacle or rule.
The company set up offshore accounts to circumvent the new tax.
Business verb
To evade a control or rule by finding a way around it.
Splitting the purchase into two invoices let the manager circumvent the approval limit.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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