entrapment
/ɪnˈtræpmənt/
noun
- The act of tricking or deceiving someone into doing something, especially a crime, often used in law to describe when police or agents induce a person to commit an offense they would not otherwise have committed.
- The defense lawyer argued that the police used entrapment to get her client to sell drugs.
- Entrapment is not a valid defense if the defendant was already willing to commit the crime.
- The movie is about a sting operation that raises questions of entrapment.
- The state of being caught or trapped in a place or situation from which escape is difficult.
- The miners' entrapment underground lasted for three days before rescuers reached them.
- She felt a sense of entrapment in her small town with no opportunities.
- The entrapment of the whale in the fishing net was tragic.