What is Avoidance play?

Pronoun avoidance is the use of kinship terms, titles and other complex nominal expressions instead of personal pronouns in speech.

Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance is a slotted media access control protocol used in wireless LAN data transmission to avoid collisions caused by the hidden station problem and to simplify...

In computer networking, carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance and resolution using priorities is a channel access method. CSMA/CARP is similar in nature to the carrier-sense multiple access with collision...

Call avoidance is a strategy businesses use to reduce inbound call volumes to contact centers in the customer service industry, particularly in the consumer market.

Smother play in contract bridge is a type of endplay where an opponent's apparent trump trick goes away.

Safety play in contract bridge is a generic name for plays in which declarer maximizes the chances for fulfilling the contract by ignoring a chance for a higher score. Declarer...

In baseball, a neighborhood play is a force play in which a fielder receiving the ball in attempting to force out a runner at second base, catches and quickly throws...

Phases of play are parts of a chess problem which happen, as it were, concurrently rather than consecutively. Each problem has at least one phase: the post-key play or actual...