entrapment








noun

  1. the luring by a law-enforcement agent of a person into committing a crime.
  2. an act or process of entrapping.
  3. a state of being entrapped.

noun

  1. the luring, by a police officer, of a person into committing a crime so that he may be prosecuted for it
n.

1590s, from entrap + -ment. Criminal investigation sense first attested 1899.

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