dodging
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈdɑdʒɪŋ/
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evasión
- The politician was criticized for his constant dodging of questions about his tax returns.
- tax dodging
- draft dodging
Both of these dodges or tricks or strategies, if you like, are going to fail for good reasons, as we're going to see in the paragraphs yet to come.
- Both of these dodges or tricks or strategies, if you like, are going to fail for good reasons, as we're going to see in the paragraphs yet to come.
Examples
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He was known for his clever dodging of unpleasant conversations, always finding an excuse to leave.
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A much greater problem for Greece is low taxes and massive tax dodging, causing a deficit.
Blog text (11) -
Guess what, if you put money in a foreign K, you're dodging ordinary income tax.
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In the meantime, the Paradise Papers have again exposed how a super rich elite is allowed to get away with dodging taxes.
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GE's tax department is famous for creative tax dodging, to the point of reducing its U.S. tax liabilities to zero.
Academic text (2017) -
That's a 24 percent increase over the average for last year's list of 2010's tax dodging executives.
Blog text (11) -
Her dodging of responsibility made it hard for the team to trust her during the project.
Synonyms
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1.1
An act of avoiding harm or a dangerous situation
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6.2
Not doing something you must do, for example not paying taxes, by using tricks
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9.5
A trick or excuse to hide the real reason
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6.4
A series of answers or actions that delay help
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7.1
An action or statement that hides the real reason behind something
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6.1
A clever trick used to avoid answering a question
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9.9
To avoid telling the truth by being vague or misleading
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7.5
An excuse that avoids doing something difficult or unpleasant
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7.4
Avoiding giving a direct answer so people do not know what you really think
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9.9
Hiding your true feelings or intentions by pretending
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8.2
An action that avoids a rule or law by finding a clever way around it
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7.7
An indirect way to avoid a rule or problem
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7.1
Act of putting blame on others to avoid doing a job you should do
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6.5
Avoiding work or responsibility
Making vague statements to avoid giving a direct answer
A short answer that avoids the question
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Etymology
The word dodging comes from the verb dodge, which also grew to mean using a clever move or small trick to 'escape' a question or duty. So dodging here means avoiding responsibility or the truth by being tricky.