English-Swedish translations for decoy

• lockbete ett
  Kommissionens löfte om att i höst lämna ett nytt förslag till beslut om ändring av detta system till oss är bara ett lockbete.The Commission’s promise to submit to us, in autumn, a new draft decision amending this system, is merely a decoy.

Definition of decoy

• A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger
• To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap
• To act as, or use, a decoy.

Examples

• to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net

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