loophole
has definitions from the field of law
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[ noun ] (law) an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
Used in print (The New York Times,...)If there had been , he would have found a loophole , because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book . |
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[ noun ] a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons
Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)The ten or more dangerous parties singled_out for prosecution were still at_large , and Pels realized that if these men entrenched themselves in their adobe_houses , defending themselves through loopholes , it would be most difficult to capture them . Related terms |
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