Usually means: Inducing someone to commit crime.
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  1. entrapment: Merriam-Webster
  2. entrapment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. entrapment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. entrapment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Entrapment, entrapment: Wordnik
  6. entrapment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. entrapment: Wiktionary
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  9. entrapment: Dictionary.com
  10. entrapment: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. entrapment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Entrapment (film), Entrapment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. entrapment: FreeDictionary.org
  15. entrapment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. entrapment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. entrapment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. entrapment: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. entrapment: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. entrapment: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  9. entrapment: Legal dictionary

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  1. entrapment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. entrapment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. entrapment: Medical dictionary

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  1. entrapment: Idioms

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  1. entrapment: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The state of being entrapped.
noun:  (law) Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
noun:  (chemistry) A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.

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