entrapment
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The state of being physically trapped, for example by wreckage after a collision.
Prolonged entrapment raised our concern about crush injury to the legs.
Law noun
A defense that government agents induced someone to commit a crime he was not predisposed to commit.
The whole case reeks of entrapment; the informant supplied the drugs, the buyer, and the idea.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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