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окольный путь stresses
gen.	sideway (тж. перен.); devious path (Anglophile); side-way; detour; roundabout; circumbendibus; circumvolution; round about way (также переносн. Kovrigin); back way; back-way; circuitous route (букв. и перен.: "he took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site"; "this is quite a circuitous route to achieve your goal!" Рина Грант); collateral hand; a roundabout way
archit.	way round
auto.	indirect route
Makarov.	devious route
med.	bypath
mil.	roundabout way
sociol.	loop road
окольным путём
gen.	obliquely; by a sidewind; in roundabout way (Val_Ships); by a roundabout way (также перен.); in a roundabout way (также перен.); by a side wind; by a circuitous route ('Otherwise why should not her luggage have been openly labelled for Baden? Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) ART Vancouver); by a roundabout route; round
Gruzovik, prop.&figur.	in a roundabout way; by a roundabout way
Makarov.	sidewind
окольными путями
gen.	by turns of the indirect corkscrew (Logos66); by the backdoor (Ремедиос_П); circuitously
idiom.	around Robin Hood's barn (Interex)
окольные пути
gen.	indirection; devious paths
Makarov.	oblique methods
obs.	ambages

окольным путём: 30 phrases in 8 subjects

American usage, not spelling	4
Diplomacy	3
General	8
Humorous / Jocular	1
Idiomatic	4
Makarov	7
Proverb	2
Slang	1