bypass

/หˆbaษชpษ‘หs/

IPA: /B AY1 P AE0 S/

noun
  1. 1

    A road that passes around something, such as a residential area

  2. 2

    A circumvention

  3. 3

    A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture

  4. 4

    An electrical shunt

  5. 5

    An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass

verb
  1. 1

    To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass

  2. 2

    To ignore the usual channels or procedures

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bypass