ENTRAPMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("entrapment" is a kind of...):

defence; defense; demurrer; denial (a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

entrap (take or catch as if in a snare or trap)