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say it: in-TRAP-muhnt
entrapment is a noun meaning "a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials". It is pronounced /ɪnˈtɹæpmənt/ — in-TRAP-muhnt. It carries one recorded sense.
a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
law
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for entrapment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.