Usually means: Deliberately steering clear of something.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word avoidance:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoidance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. avoidance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avoidance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avoidance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avoidance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Avoidance, avoidance: Wordnik
  7. avoidance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. avoidance: Wiktionary
  9. avoidance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. avoidance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. avoidance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. avoidance: Dictionary.com
  13. avoidance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Avoidance (novel), Avoidance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Avoidance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. avoidance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. avoidance: Rhymezone
  18. Avoidance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. avoidance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. avoidance: Free Dictionary
  21. avoidance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. avoidance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. avoidance: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoidance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Avoidance: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. avoidance: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avoidance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. avoidance: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. avoidance: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avoidance: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Avoidance: Extragalactic Astronomy

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
noun:  (law, obsolete) The act of annulling; annulment.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant, specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of dismissing a person.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of quitting a position or benefice.
noun:  (obsolete) The course by which anything (especially water) is carried off.

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