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Entrapment
01
(law) a practice in which government officials persuade someone to commit a crime that one would not have done by choice
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Uncountable
Plural form
entrapments
Examples
The defense argued that the defendant’s actions were a result of entrapment.
Lexical Tree
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