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What (who) is Decoy - definition
PERSON, DEVICE, OR EVENT DESIGNED AS A DISTRACTION MEANT TO FOOL OR DIVERT AN AUTOMATED DEVICE, SOMEONE, ANOTHER LIVING BEING, OR SOME NATURAL PROCESS
Decoys; Sink receptor; Pseudosubstrate
decoy
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If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
He was booked on a flight leaving that day, but that was just a decoy.
N-COUNT
Decoy
·noun A place into which wild fowl, ·esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
II. Decoy ·noun A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
III. Decoy ·noun Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
IV. Decoy ·noun A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
decoy
I. v. a.
Allure, lure, entice, inveigle, seduce, tempt, entrap, ensnare.
II. n.
Lure, allurement.
Wikipedia
Decoy
A decoy (derived from the Dutch de kooi, literally "the cage" or possibly ende kooi, "duck cage") is usually a person, device, or event which resembles what an individual or a group might be looking for, but it is only meant to lure them. Decoys have been used for centuries most notably in game hunting, but also in wartime and in the committing or resolving of crimes.
Examples of use of Decoy
1. He could have been a decoy used by Syrian intelligence.
2. Eventually Newcomer decided to set up a decoy eBay account.
3. Reports said the motorcade was accompanied by two decoy convoys.
4. Security officials had dispatched a second decoy convoy.
5. Another character is introduced as a fanatical assassin but ends up a likely decoy.