Usually means: Provision allowing contract termination early.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. escape clause: Merriam-Webster
  2. escape clause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escape clause: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. escape clause: Collins English Dictionary
  5. escape clause: Wiktionary
  6. escape clause: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. escape clause: Dictionary.com
  8. Escape Clause (film), Escape Clause, Escape clause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. escape clause: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. escape clause: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. escape clause: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. escape clause: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Escape clause: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. escape-clause, escape clause: Legal dictionary
  7. escape clause: Financial dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (escape clause)

▸ noun:  (figuratively) Any clause, term or condition in a contract or statute that avoids the application of a provision

Similar:
disapplication, ellipsis, nonavoidance, avoidance, free pass, nonabridgment, nonstipulation, strict construction, exemption, nonapplication, more...

Opposite:
binding clause, obligation, commitment

Adjectives:
escaped, getaway, dodge, evasive, off, offn, go, goan, departed, way out

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Similar:
disapplication, ellipsis, nonavoidance, avoidance, free pass, nonabridgment, nonstipulation, strict construction, exemption, nonapplication, more...

Opposite:
binding clause, obligation, commitment

Adjectives:
escaped, getaway, dodge, evasive, off, offn, go, goan, departed, way out



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