Usually means: Eliminating the need for something.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word Obviating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. obviating: Merriam-Webster
  2. obviating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obviating: Vocabulary.com
  4. obviating: Wordnik
  5. obviating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. obviating: Wiktionary
  7. Obviating, obviating: Dictionary.com
  8. Obviating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Obviating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. obviating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. obviating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. obviating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. obviating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See obviate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (obviate)

verb:  (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
verb:  (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
noun:  (linguistics) Synonym of obviative
adjective:  (linguistics) Synonym of obviative
▸ Also see obviate

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