| 释义 |
avoid·ance
I. \-dən(t)s\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English avoidaunce, from avoiden to avoid + -aunce -ance
1. obsolete
a. : an action of emptying, vacating, or clearing away
b. : outlet
2. : vacancy — used especially of an office or benefice
< the next avoidance of an abbacy >
3. : the act of annulling or making void : annulment
< avoidance of a contract >
4. : an act or practice of avoiding something undesirable or unwelcome
< avoidance of danger >
< the use of merger agreements … as a means of tax avoidance — Va. Law Review >
5. : abstention from various types of social contact with persons of specified relationships, especially with those of the opposite sex that are related by marriage (as a parent-in-law), a custom overtly signifying respect and difference in status and amounting to a taboo among some primitive peoples — compare joking relationship
6. : the introduction of new material in pleading in order to avoid the effect of known and admitted facts presented in an adversary's former pleading
< a plea in avoidance >
II. noun
: an anticipatory response undertaken to avoid a noxious stimulus
< conditioned avoidance in mice > |