trap
US /træp/
noun, verb Target · B2 Đời sống hằng ngày
Definition
a device for catching animals; an unpleasant situation from which one cannot escape; to catch
Frequent in business risks ('liquidity trap', 'trapped by debt').
Examples
Mice got into the storeroom, so we set a trap.
Word Family
NounNoun
trap gốc
trapper
VerbVerb
trap gốc
AdjectiveAdj
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AdverbAdv
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Synonyms
- snarea trap for catching birds or animals; a pitfall
- capturethe act of taking something into possession or control
- catchan act of intercepting and holding something
Collocations
- Easy mouse trapa mechanical device designed to catch and kill rodents
- Medium fall into a budget trapto become entangled in unforeseen financial expenditures
- Hard escape the middle-income trapto transition an economy successfully into advanced prosperity
- Very Hard fall into a rhetorical trap sprung by adversariesto walk inadvertently into an argumentative snare set by rivals
Learner's English edition · Curated definitions for TOEIC learners.