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Thesaurus: sting operation
a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
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- n. a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
- n. operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act