Trust is risk, and risk avoidance is the name of the game in business.
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Avoidance
//əˈvɔɪdəns//
Synonyms for "avoidance" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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38 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَجَنُّب noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Bulgarian
4 entries- анулиране noun (The act of annulling)
- избягване noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
- касиране noun (A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.)
- отбягване noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Catalan
1 entries- evitació noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Danish
1 entries- undgåelse noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Dutch
1 entries- vermijden noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Esperanto
1 entries- evito noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Finnish
2 entries- karttaminen noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
- välttäminen noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
French
1 entries- évitement noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
German
1 entries- Vermeidung noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Greek
3 entries- ακύρωση noun (The act of annulling)
- απομάκρυνση noun (A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.)
- αποφυγή noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Hungarian
1 entries- elkerülés noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Irish
1 entries- seachaint noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Italian
4 entries- annullamento noun (The act of annulling)
- elusione noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
- prevenzione noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
- rimozione noun (A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.)
Japanese
3 entries- 取り消し noun (The act of annulling)
- 回避 noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
- 撤回 noun (The act of annulling)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- unngåelse noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Portuguese
3 entries- evasão noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
- evitamento noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
- evitação noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Spanish
4 entries- abstinencia noun (A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.)
- anulación noun (The act of annulling)
- evasión noun (A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.)
- evitación noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Swahili
1 entries- ukwepaji noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Swedish
1 entries- undvikande noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Welsh
1 entries- osgoi noun (The act of avoiding or shunning)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The government is cracking down on tax avoidance schemes.
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There's a fine line between tax minimisation and tax avoidance.
Source: tatoeba (5156922)
There's a fine line between tax minimization and tax avoidance.
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