Meaning & use
entrapment
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The act of tricking someone into committing a crime so that they can be prosecuted for it, or the state of being trapped.
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The defense argued that police used entrapment to get the suspect to sell drugs.
The animal's entrapment in the abandoned well took hours to resolve.
A note on using this word
Entrapment has a specific legal meaning: it's a defense used when law enforcement induces someone to commit a crime they otherwise wouldn't have.
Words with a similar meaning
trickerytrap
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