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My boss asked me to have a look at a presentation he'll be giving next week; checking if he didn't forget anything.
While skimming over the document, the following sentence was somehow bothering me:

... in order to circuit the problem.

The use of circuit as a verb seemed odd to me. I first checked Merriam Webster's and Oxford's Learner's Dictionaries but they don't have listed circuit as a verb. The advanced editions of both dictionaries define the verb.

BothNeither the Corpora of Contemporary American English andnor the British National Corpus do not have any entrieshas an entry on using circuit as a verb, but 10k and 2.5k, respectively, uses as a noun.

I incidentally mentioned to my boss that I'd chosen to circumvent, to handle or to deal. Subsequently, he asked a colleague who's native English whether she would understand the meaning of circuit. She agreed.

Surprisingly, she didn't say that circuit would be an odd choice. Well, I think if I had posed the question in a different way, namely not asking about "being understandable" but rather about "is it natural to use circuit as a verb".

Is circuit acceptable as a verb in ordinary language or is it - as corpora are suggesting - an uncommon verb?

My boss asked me to have a look at a presentation he'll be giving next week; checking if he didn't forget anything.
While skimming over the document, the following sentence was somehow bothering me:

... in order to circuit the problem.

The use of circuit as a verb seemed odd to me. I first checked Merriam Webster's and Oxford's Learner's Dictionaries but they don't have listed circuit as a verb. The advanced editions of both dictionaries define the verb.

Both the Corpora of Contemporary American English and British National Corpus do not have any entries on using circuit as a verb, but 10k and 2.5k, respectively, uses as a noun.

I incidentally mentioned to my boss that I'd chosen to circumvent, to handle or to deal. Subsequently, he asked a colleague who's native English whether she would understand the meaning of circuit. She agreed.

Surprisingly, she didn't say that circuit would be an odd choice. Well, I think if I had posed the question in a different way, namely not asking about "being understandable" but rather about "is it natural to use circuit as a verb".

Is circuit acceptable as a verb in ordinary language or is it - as corpora are suggesting - an uncommon verb?

My boss asked me to have a look at a presentation he'll be giving next week; checking if he didn't forget anything.
While skimming over the document, the following sentence was somehow bothering me:

... in order to circuit the problem.

The use of circuit as a verb seemed odd to me. I first checked Merriam Webster's and Oxford's Learner's Dictionaries but they don't have listed circuit as a verb. The advanced editions of both dictionaries define the verb.

Neither the Corpora of Contemporary American English nor the British National Corpus has an entry on using circuit as a verb, but 10k and 2.5k, respectively, uses as a noun.

I incidentally mentioned to my boss that I'd chosen to circumvent, to handle or to deal. Subsequently, he asked a colleague who's native English whether she would understand the meaning of circuit. She agreed.

Surprisingly, she didn't say that circuit would be an odd choice. Well, I think I had posed the question in a different way, namely not asking about "being understandable" but rather about "is it natural to use circuit as a verb".

Is circuit acceptable as a verb in ordinary language or is it - as corpora are suggesting - an uncommon verb?

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Is "to circuit" a common verb in colloquial language?

My boss asked me to have a look at a presentation he'll be giving next week; checking if he didn't forget anything.
While skimming over the document, the following sentence was somehow bothering me:

... in order to circuit the problem.

The use of circuit as a verb seemed odd to me. I first checked Merriam Webster's and Oxford's Learner's Dictionaries but they don't have listed circuit as a verb. The advanced editions of both dictionaries define the verb.

Both the Corpora of Contemporary American English and British National Corpus do not have any entries on using circuit as a verb, but 10k and 2.5k, respectively, uses as a noun.

I incidentally mentioned to my boss that I'd chosen to circumvent, to handle or to deal. Subsequently, he asked a colleague who's native English whether she would understand the meaning of circuit. She agreed.

Surprisingly, she didn't say that circuit would be an odd choice. Well, I think if I had posed the question in a different way, namely not asking about "being understandable" but rather about "is it natural to use circuit as a verb".

Is circuit acceptable as a verb in ordinary language or is it - as corpora are suggesting - an uncommon verb?