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What does obviate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word obviate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).
  2. (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
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However, the existence of representative government doesn't obviate the necessity of enquiry.
This, however, does not obviate the need for democratic forces to formulate a strategy for change.
Forcing that outcome now is right and timely, and may obviate the need to pursue it militarily later.
For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony.
This would have made the coast self-sufficient and obviate the need to upgrade the transmission line from Kikiwa and Islington.
It won't obviate the need for the Government to address the chronic skills crisis that's facing our military.

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