dodge

8 definitions • 10 examples

to avoid being hit by something by moving quickly to one side:

He dodged to avoid the hurtling bicycle.

to avoid something unpleasant:

The Senator dodged questions about his relationship with the actress.

a clever, dishonest way of avoiding something:

tax dodge They bought another car as a tax dodge (= a way to avoid paying tax).

to avoid being hit by something by moving quickly to one side:

fig. We have dodged a bullet a lot of times in the last three or four years.

To dodge something unpleasant is to avoid it:

[ T ] Few men still talk about how they dodged the draft.

a trick to deceive someone or to avoid doing something that you do not want to do:

She sells antiques as a tax dodge.

to avoid something, especially illegally:

He has repeatedly dodged questions from reporters.

The company filed for bankruptcy, seeking to dodge $445,000 in debts.

Many people caught dodging tax were doing so to hide capital gains made on the stock market.

a way of avoiding something, sometimes illegally:

When measured in yen, trade went up by only 2%, but measuring trade in yen is a dodge, because almost all of it is conducted in dollars.