Usually means: Exploit within rules, technically legal.
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  1. loophole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loophole: Merriam-Webster
  3. loophole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. loophole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. loophole: Collins English Dictionary
  6. loophole: Vocabulary.com
  7. Loophole, loophole: Wordnik
  8. loophole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. loophole: Wiktionary
  10. loophole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. loophole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. loophole: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. loophole: Dictionary.com
  14. loophole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. loophole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Loophole (disambiguation), Loophole (firearm), Loophole (short story), Loophole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Loophole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. loophole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. loophole: Rhymezone
  20. loophole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. loophole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Loophole: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. loophole: FreeDictionary.org
  24. loophole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. loophole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. loophole: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Loophole: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Loophole: Investopedia
  6. loophole: Legal dictionary
  7. Loophole: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Loophole: Castle Terms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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

(Note: See loopholed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (historical) A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light.
noun:  (figurative) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
verb:  (military, transitive) To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
verb:  (transitive) To exploit (a law, etc.) by means of loopholes.

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