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skirt
(redirected from skirting around)

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skirt
1. a frieze or circular flap, as round the base of a hovercraft
2. the flaps on a saddle that protect a rider's legs
3. NZ the lower part of a sheep's fleece

skirt [skərt]
(aerospace engineering)
(building construction)


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It wasn't sentimental or skirting around the edges and making something better than it was.
``So it's a matter of skirting around them to maintain the freedom in the choices you make as an actor.
There have been hundreds of bankruptcies in the telecommunications sector, mostly affecting the ambitious new entrants who had promised to deliver the broadband revolution that the incumbents had already spent the best part of a decade skirting around until the right technology became available at the right place.
 
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