bypass

  1. Noun.  a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.
  2. Noun.  a circumvention.
  3. Noun.  a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
  4. Noun.  an electrical shunt.
  5. Noun.  (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
  6. Verb.  to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
  7. Verb.  to ignore the usual channels or procedures.

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