loophole
漏洞,窟窿,隙
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- : a means of escape or evasion; a means or opportunity of evading a rule, law, etc.: There are a number of loopholes in the tax laws whereby corporations can save money.
- : a small or narrow opening, as in a wall, for looking through, for admitting light and air, or, particularly in a fortification, for the discharge of missiles against an enemy outside.
- : an opening or aperture.
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loop·holed, loop·hol·ing.
- : to furnish with loopholes.
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At the time of the law’s passage, net-neutrality advocates were deeply concerned that loopholes would allow operators to get away with practices that prioritize some traffic over other traffic, for commercial rather than technical reasons.
The government also was slow to plug a loophole that had allowed over 200,000 people to enter Hong Kong without undergoing quarantine—an exception experts say is responsible for starting the third onslaught of the virus.
Hall and his colleagues plan to address this regulatory loophole and come up with recommendations during a new round of workshops that will start next spring.
MediaTek’s fortunes changed dramatically with Monday’s order, which essentially closed the loophole that MediaTek fit so nicely into.
Zero-rating, by the way, is a sort of loophole that allows internet providers to designate certain websites as counting for zero toward a customer’s data usage.
But, they added, that body scanners are absent at local airports, which they called “this large loophole.”
Would it surprise you to learn there is a loophole in federal disclosure requirements?
Critics say the loophole leads for-profit schools to aggressively target veterans to draw additional federal funding.
Efforts to close the loophole have failed in Washington, but have gained momentum in the states.
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) acknowledged the loophole, but insisted the bill should nevertheless move forward.