(verb) to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action)
will obviate spending down the road
This does not obviate the fact that many of the basic use value inputs into the production process of the tourist industry are free goods
Sometimes political confrontation was obviated in a short-lived post-revolutionary burst of class camaraderie
He'd obviated most errands when he'd started ordering everything online
To break the polity into factions would obviate the idea that the freedom struggle had united the people with one interest, to create a nation against imperialism.
Much of it had been obviated by the internet; its style was obsolete
simultaneously aggravating and obviating the distinction between self and other
These troops were originally sent to the region to contain the global ascendancy of communism (in general) and China (in particular), and while history has obviated the first justification, the second one remains