📖 Definitions 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.
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