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What does loophole mean?

loophole

an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons

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Simple sentences

Tom used a legal loophole.
The lawyer found a loophole in the law.
Tom took advantage of a tax loophole.

Movie subtitles

And my loophole too!
A loophole in time might make it possible to reach food, medicine, energy.
I'm making a loophole, see?
Old Loophole Henson will show you how to handle troublemakers.
He could find a loophole in the Ten Commandments.
That could be a loophole to get me out of here.
Why don't you find the loophole?
Okay, I don't wanna go over there and do it and then come back here and find out there was some little loophole like I didn't put mustard on it or something.
I need to find a loophole.
If that's what you want, we can find a loophole.
Override! Loophole!
Next year they're closing this loophole.
I ain't looking for no loophole.
Look for a loophole.
Mr. Loophole, I'm sure glad to see you.
This Loophole, he's a smart lawyer.
Loophole, that's not the boss.
Loophole.
That's Mr. Loophole. He's a lawyer.
Did I frighten you, Mr. Loophole? - No.
A Loophole never deserts a sinking ship.
Let Loophole do the talking, and you keep quiet.
Cheever Loophole.
Mr. Loophole, have you met Peerless Pauline?
Why, Mr. Loophole, surely you don't think that I.
Find Mr. Loophole. Tell him we'll be ready in five minutes.
There may be a loophole, I'll go to Town Hall tomorrow and see.
Counsellor, let's find a legal loophole 'cause I gotta get out.
Counselor, let's find a legal loophole 'cause I gotta get out.
A loophole in Time, and then maybe it would be possible to reach food, medicine, sources of energy.
But if you do find a loophole, forget it.
Loophole? What loophole has he got?
But a loophole means the bloody thing's showing in this dump.
He's found a dating loophole.
That's another loophole.
All that matters is that after all these years, we found a loophole.
Someone has clued them in to a loophole in Catholic dogma that would allow them to reenter heaven.
Not the plenary-indulgence loophole.
Secondly, I laid him a trap, and thirdly, left him a loophole.

News and current affairs

Correct, because the NPT was born with a loophole.
That plugged part of the loophole in the treaty without amending it.
The NPT allows countries the right to develop nuclear energy for purposes such as electricity generation, a loophole that allows governments to build most of what is necessary to produce the fuel for a nuclear weapon.
What is missing is a new, 13th convention that closes the loophole that seems to permit governments to decide what constitutes terrorism and what does not.
While renegotiating the NPT itself to close the enrichment loophole seems for now a lost cause, there are other ways to address this proliferation risk.
The system, Americans have been reminded, has become painfully complex, with many a loophole through which one might try to squeeze.
Paulson, the outgoing Treasury Secretary and another Goldman Sachs veteran, left a loophole in his rescue package big enough for a truck to drive through.
That loophole allowed his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street to pay themselves billion-dollar bonuses while keeping those firms afloat with taxpayers' money.
Even the European Central Bank chipped in, buying government bonds of over-indebted countries, using a loophole in the Maastricht Treaty and overruling the Bank's German representatives.

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