BYPASS

Bypass

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.

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bypass

Noun

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

Verb

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


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