The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word AVOIDANCE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result AVOIDANCE
- Skipping gap between two articles on church
- Dodging a very old paper ball
- Chap who’s desperate to get in air after a ducking
- A ring arrested in hustling and vice prevention
- Dodging a very ordinary party for Steve Jobs?
- Five-nil, with one intercepting a ball and sidestepping
- Evasion from a spokesperson about level of fighting
- Act of sidestepping a vacancy in a benefice
- Shunning a cove and swimming around island
- A worthless African party originally encouraged shirking
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What does AVOIDANCE mean?
AVOIDANCE noun- The act of annulling; annulment.
- The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; – specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
- A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
- The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
- Any thing that is to be avoided
- The courts by which anything is carried off.