Usually means: Route around an obstruction created.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bypass: Merriam-Webster
  2. bypass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bypass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bypass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bypass: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bypass, bypass: Wordnik
  7. bypass: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bypass: Wiktionary
  9. bypass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bypass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bypass: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bypass: Dictionary.com
  13. bypass: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bypass: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bypass (computing), Bypass (disambiguation), Bypass (road), Bypass (telecommunications), Bypass, The Bypass (film), The Bypass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. bypass: Rhymezone
  17. bypass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bypass: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bypass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bypass: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bypass: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. bypass: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bypass: Netlingo
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. bypass: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. bypass: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bypass: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. bypass: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. bypass: Medical dictionary
  10. Bypass: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bypass: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. BYPASS: Power Engineering
  5. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See bypassed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
noun:  A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
noun:  The act of going past or around.
noun:  A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
noun:  An electrical shunt.
noun:  (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
verb:  To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
verb:  To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

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