Definition of "obviates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate. (verb)

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• "It's such an obvious threat that the mere mention of his ? name obviates the need for any explanation of the importance of this letter or even a link."
• "That "obviates" the need to raise taxes of foreign companies operating in the U.S., he said."
• "That data needn’t be encyclopedic — an advanced chip’s capacity is 2 kilobytes, enough to encode a serial number, where and when the product was manufactured, and a bit more — but the RFID tag obviates the need for bar-code scanning."