AVOIDANCE


Meaning of AVOIDANCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

tax avoidance

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

passive

Thus results from passive avoidance and imprinting might begin to converge, which should be good news for both labs.

This is the basic one-trial passive avoidance learning model that had attracted me.

The other approach has been to argue that rats have difficulty with passive avoidance because they can not remember recent events.

■ NOUN

behaviour

In this case the husband's behaviour might be positively reinforcing the wife's avoidance behaviour.

In a classroom situation blackboard is more available than, say, theatre. avoidance behaviour See under behaviour.

There seems to have been no evolutionary selection for specific avoidance behaviour -- cowering giraffes are not a sensitive predictor of thunderstorms.

On the contrary, they went hand-in-hand with the correlations already established between avoidance behaviour and residence at marriage.

tax

Since tax avoidance is so effective, the answer is probably not much.

But a low capital-gains rate leads to investment decisions based on expectations of tax avoidance rather than productive efficiency.

Trusts are a particular object of attack, as if all trusts had as their purpose the aim of tax avoidance .

Big business has further reduced its contributions by ingenious tax avoidance strategies.

It was not necessarily that the rich were more adroit at tax avoidance .

There are several specialist groups for business, subcontractors, large-scale tax avoidance and transfer of assets overseas.

This may make your tax avoidance strategies much harder to employ.

If a sign were needed that the Internet has become a real market, the arrival of tax avoidance is surely it.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Troops have received training in mine avoidance and detection.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It is important at this stage to stress the unhealthy nature of avoidance .

They avoid the big prices with imitation goods, and with avoidance of store rents.

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