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anticircumvention

anticircumvention noun: in opposition to circumvention of a prohibition, or of a means to carry out a prohibition.

Noun

anticircumvention (uncountable)

  1. In opposition to circumvention of a prohibition, or of a means to carry out a prohibition.
    • The anticircumvention and rights-management provisions have been the focus of nearly all opposition to Title I and of much of the opposition to the DMCA as a whole.2006, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, page 91

Forms of anticircumvention

alternative formanti-circumvention

Origin of anticircumvention

From anti- + circumvention.

Questions about anticircumvention

What does anticircumvention mean?
Anticircumvention means in opposition to circumvention of a prohibition, or of a means to carry out a prohibition.
What part of speech is anticircumvention?
Anticircumvention is a noun.

Words near anticircumvention in the dictionary

  1. anticipointments
  2. anticippointment
  3. anticircular
  4. anticircumcision
  5. anticircumsporozoite
  6. anticircumvention
  7. anticircus
  8. anticistamines
  9. anticitizenship
  10. anticitrullinated
  11. anticitrulline

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