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Word: bypass (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • a circumvention
  • an electrical shunt
  • a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
  • a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
  • medicine an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass

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Verb:

  • to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
  • to ignore the usual channels or procedures

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