[U] (law) the illegal act of tricking sb into committing a crime so that they can be arrested for it:
There is no defence of entrapment in English law.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is entrapment a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, entrapment is tagged as noun.
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