Usually means: Avoids or escapes from something.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. evades: Merriam-Webster
  2. evades: Collins English Dictionary
  3. evades: Vocabulary.com
  4. Evades, evades: Wordnik
  5. evades: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. evades: Wiktionary
  7. evades: Dictionary.com
  8. evades: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Evades: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. evades: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See evade as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (evade)

verb:  (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from
verb:  (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
verb:  (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
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