(v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
(v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
(v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
(v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
(v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
(n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
(2) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(3) Eric King, deputy director of PI, said: "More than a year after Snowden, the British government continues to dodge the question of just how integrated the operations of GCHQ and NSA truly are.
(4) End diastolic and systolic volume and ejection fractions were calculated by two methods (Ahlberg and Dodge).
(5) The effects of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) on spatial memory first reported by Shavalia, Dodge, and Beatty (1981, Behavioral and Neural Biology, 31, 261-273) were systematically replicated in two experiments.
(6) But another worry, says Dodge, is that the price of Iraq's freedom will turn out to be an authoritarian political system.
(7) We have so much work to do to bridge the gulf and, at the moment, the sector finds it easier to dodge the issue than tackle it head on."
(8) "This would require them to prove that YouView is dominant, which could be tricky, given the state of the market," said Becket McGrath, a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
(9) The increase in electricity prices over the past 12 months is the lowest since September 2007, and taking away the fourth quarter, affected by the introduction of the carbon price, the trend is clearly towards lower rises in the future: The Liberal party, by virtue of being in opposition from 2007 to 2013, dodged the big bullet of electricity prices.
(10) The candidate was crushed with just 4.9% of the vote and was forced to dodge Sydney Leathers, a woman who said she had received sexual messages from him, while giving his concession speech.
(11) We all have plenty to fear | Jonathan Freedland Read more On Tuesday, the Times headlined its editorial about the election “Tough Choice”, as if the decision between a woman who used the wrong email server and a racist, sexist, tax-dodging bully wasn’t, in fact, the easiest choice in the world.
(12) "But we will not tolerate abuse of the system by people trying to dodge their tax obligations."
(13) You have somebody that’s gonna run this country right, and I would be willing to bet – because I think this is one of the great cities, one of the most beautiful cities in the world – and you have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president.” He had dodged and also praised his host.
(14) David Cameron has dodged an imminent revolt by 60 Tory backbenchers over the lifting of border controls on Bulgarians and Romanians, as the government revealed that the immigration bill would be delayed until the new year.
(15) On saying this, I don’t close my eyes to the endemic corruption and tax-dodging in Greece (nor indeed, does the outsiders’ movement Syriza, which came to power campaigning against just these vices).
(16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(17) This guy can buy silence, but that isn't offered to most people who are caught fare dodging."
(18) "Tax dodging is not easily defeated, so companies should be required to report additional information like sales volumes, assets and profits to put their payments into context.
(19) Aims In 2013 our campaign achieved commitments from the UK government at the G8 for action on tax dodging .
(20) Full-blooded hypothecation would in theory dodge some of these weaknesses.
Doge
Definition:
(n.) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Doge, for those of you still unaware, is a meme involving pictures of a confused-looking Shiba Inu with brightly coloured comic sans text surrounding it, spelling out in idiosyncratic broken English the animal's thoughts.
(2) Take a field which anyone can enter, and where the average user has little or no way to distinguish between competing examples; and then whack the most popular meme of 2013, Doge, on the front of your own.
(3) Doge managed to baffle mainstream media earlier this year when it was discussed on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme .
(4) Doge Photograph: KnowYourMeme.com A shoo-in for his own film, the shiba inu would make a great protagonist.
(5) Our own Alex Hern explains the essence of Doge: "A good guideline is that if it sounds subtly wrong in English, it’s probably OK in Doge" .
(6) But the association with the popular Doge meme alone was enough to give Dogecoin the cachet required for its own boom and bust.
(7) Doge running out of a burning building with a damsel in distress in his paws, after killing a baddie and saving a whole town with the exclamation of "Much hero!
(8) The original picture of Kabosu the shiba inu, which has become synonymous with doge.
(9) We want to see Doge in a full-blown box office action caper.
(10) Meanwhile, a Google Play search for Flappy Bird turns up pandas, mice, pigs, cows, frogs, bats, fish, Nyan Cats, dragons, doges and several piles of faeces paying flappy homage.
(11) Missouri University doge, very science 6.07pm BST The Museum of Modern Art will now accept your pets: Museum of Modern Art (@MuseumModernArt) We're happy to announce our latest MoMA membership level: Pet Membership.
(12) Visitors to Venice have long been amazed, if not horrified, by the vast floating palaces, 15 storeys high and twice the length of St Mark's, that regularly loom over the basilica and the Doge's Palace, displacing thousands of tons of water to smash against the ancient piles and bricks.
(13) SR The Golden Doge award for best meme Winner: Luis Suárez biting everything Suarez as Jaws.
(14) The ban had been introduced after the Costa Concordia disaster ; a similar steering error off Venice would flatten the Doge's Palace, St Mark's basilica and its square in a matter of seconds.
(15) Overall, it is estimated the tweet was seen by 37 million people and inspired parodies featuring Drake , Grumpy Cat , pepperoni pizza , and of course, Doge .
(16) They knew full well that people come to them to doge their tax liabilities.
(17) Photograph: Know Your Meme Not to be confused with Venetian royalty , doge is a meme which became popular late in 2013.