Usually means: Avoids something through quick movement.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dodges: Merriam-Webster
  2. dodges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dodges: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dodge's, Dodges, dodges: Wordnik
  5. dodges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Dodges, dodges: Wiktionary
  7. dodges: Dictionary.com
  8. dodges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dodges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dodges: Legal dictionary

(Note: See dodge as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dodge)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
verb:  (archaic, ambitransitive) To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
verb:  (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker.
verb:  (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
verb:  (ambitransitive, dated) To trick somebody.
noun:  An act of dodging.
noun:  A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
noun:  (slang) A line of work.
adjective:  (Australia, British, colloquial) Dodgy.
noun:  (countable, chiefly US) A surname transferred from the given name.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A village in Nebraska.
noun:  A city and village in North Dakota.
noun:  A census-designated place in Oklahoma.
noun:  A town in Wisconsin.
noun:  A brand of motor vehicle.
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