Bypass
bypass (verb) - go around, avoid, redirect
a bypass (noun) - a road that takes traffic around a town rather than through the town
virtually impossible to bypass
bypassed by
have largely bypassed
bypass a problem
bypass an issue
developments bypass an issue
bypass an obstacle
far too good to be bypassed
bypassing and snubbing
trading bypassing the floor of the stock exchange
bypassed the constitutional arrangements
bypassing the wait at x
achieved by bypassing
bypass a lock
bypass protection
bypass security
bypass security arrangements
direct line that bypasses the switchboard
bypass the dragon lady
a bypass switch
bypass a system
heart bypass surgery
charisma bypass surgery
bypass the usual channels
bypass local authorities
bypass local government
bypass in one fell swoop
bypass a social institution
bypass middle management
Example sentences:
* "Happily the village is now bypassed and so spared the torture of heavy traffic, a blessing appreciated by the grateful residents."
* The TV rental companies will try to bypass public and trade distrust of their competitors by offering viewers their own rental package improved picture and sound quality.
* The little village is far too good to be bypassed when you are traveling in the area.
* "I would have to find a way of bypassing it."
* He would have had to bypass the dragon-lady, Leslie Brown, to get into his office and have a word with him.
* "She kept her eye on things generally, such as: tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid (caught out bypassing the mistress's careful instructions) that pots were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed, as well as being emptied every morning."
* "An increasing amount of share trading, particularly in international shares, was bypassing the floor of the Stock Exchange."
* Visitors to the shopping mall are bypassing our shops.
* "The notion of bypassing capitalism, of direct transition from feudalism to socialism, was idle Utopianism."
* "In place of the former culture of bureaucracy, Mr Horton set out to install a structure with the minimum of controls and the maximum of delegation of responsibility, bypassing the traditional middle management layers of the organisation."
* The president had totally failed to understand the inflationary threat and bypassed the constitutional arrangements with respect to the financing of the government.
* The new proposed organisational structure bypasses and snubs the founders of the firm.
* They sent a new list of recommendations to the national parliament bypassing the committee of ministers entirely.
* "He fiddled the local gas company by bypassing the gas meter using a section of old piping."
* She searched through her pockets for change and tried to recall the number of the line which connected direct with Nick's office, bypassing the busy switchboard.
* "Most dinosaur nasal passages bypassed the mouth cavity."
* "Houses were being built ever further down the road which now completely bypassed the old fort."
* "We were both in the upper IQ bracket; we could've used channels, pulled strings, bypassed the system."
* It was not negligence that had let the terrorists through. The intelligence indications were that security arrangements had been bypassed.
* Setting out from his little cottage in the forest he bypassed his mother's home and cut through the forest, heading for the miner's camp.
* The pro-business administration wishes to bypass the very agencies which most obviously have the capacity to produce strategic planning of a business-friendly kind.
* The manager of the football club was just discharged from the hospital after a heart bypass.
* "I was told by a French sourpuss nurse in the hall that the doctor has clearly had charisma bypass surgery."
* I can't understand why labour groups wish to bypass national government in the negotiations over the new contract.
* If this step is not performed, the protection is bypassed.
* Why has he bypassed the usual channels?
* The main towns are bypassed by these highways.
* "Part of this strategy involved local authorities being bypassed and a reliance on the regenerative power of private capital in the form of property developers."
* "An ordinary lock can easily be bypassed with a strip of plastic."
* "A deeper exploration of his protagonist's bizarre affliction and its implications in real life is totally bypassed by a throwaway plot which leans far too heavily on comedy of the loud-shirts-and-checked-trousers variety."
* "Instead he concentrated on the unofficial Ford Workers' Combine, which bypassed the official union structure dominated by the Transport and General Workers' Union."
* Movies succeeded as a form of entertainment because they had gone straight to the people and had seemingly bypassed every obstacle.
* "The movies could not hope to escape, especially as they had accumulated a mass audience in one great swoop that bypassed the schools, the churches, the charities, and all the other traditional agencies of cultural influence."
* "It has also stood Marx on his head, by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society (if at the same time gratifying Lenin's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed)."
* "Family health services authority professional advisers will be keen to see that the system is not bypassed by hospital consultants who, having had a request to use a product turned down, ask general practitioners to initiate the prescription."
* "Here the emphasis is on bypassing your higher faculties and submitting to the fundamental, libidinous drives of your body."
* "When the plane landed at Frankfurt he left the airport first, bypassing the wait at the carousel which held up his colleagues."
* The search for appropriate bodies through which business interests could be represented was not an easy one and has only been achieved either by completely bypassing existing councils or by involving councillors as well as officers in developing new arrangements in a context of financial pressure and legal constraints.
