Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
- noun That which empties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
- noun One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
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- noun The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
- noun One who
avoids , shuns, or escapes.
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Examples
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The tax 'avoider', being substantially richer, can be expected to squirrel away a good portion of the income kept from the Exchequer, to the detriment of the rest of the economy.
A welfare bill for people with straightforward lives | Julia Unwin 2011
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Parson - you may have a point - Philip Green, tax 'avoider' par excellence as an expert on reducing the deficit - half the cabinet with cash in tax havens while spouting 'We're all in it together' , ETON as a charity while stse school repairs stopped -- why, yer couldn't make it up pal!
Instead of one-nation Conservatism, we are getting a two-tier Britain | John Harris 2010
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But you may not know that you could be what’s called an avoider, in that you suffer internally from the psychological turmoil that comes with the public and private disdain for obesity, and you avoid confronting your situation at all because of the internal fear of not being able to beat it.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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But you may not know that you could be what’s called an avoider, in that you suffer internally from the psychological turmoil that comes with the public and private disdain for obesity, and you avoid confronting your situation at all because of the internal fear of not being able to beat it.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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But you may not know that you could be what’s called an avoider, in that you suffer internally from the psychological turmoil that comes with the public and private disdain for obesity, and you avoid confronting your situation at all because of the internal fear of not being able to beat it.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Her husband David Addington is another military service avoider who is an architect of the Bush/Cheney torture program.
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Bartholomew: The trend is towards more focus on fault, less on instrumentalism. eBay explicitly rejected a cheapest cost avoider standard.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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A career General and former Secretary of State who served honorably in our military services (with one glaring blip of selling the Iraq war) or a greedy, pompous, 5 time deferred military avoider with a political agenda?
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So, morally, fiscally, economically, it makes much more sense to go after the avoider rather than the claimant.
A welfare bill for people with straightforward lives | Julia Unwin 2011
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Her husband David Addington is another military service avoider who is an architect of the Bush/Cheney torture program.
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