entrapment

Meaning of entrapment

noun
  1. The state of being entrapped.
    The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.
  2. 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.
    A detective asking you to buy illegal marijuana for a dying man would be police entrapment.
  3. A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.

Information about entrapment

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of entrapment is: entrapments.
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Hyphenation of entrapment

en-trap-ment

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • entrapment is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of entrapment

Words that rhyme with entrapment

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