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decoy (noun)

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  • decoy — ► NOUN 1) a bird or mammal, or an imitation of one, used by hunters to lure game. 2) a person or thing used to mislead or lure someone into a trap. 3) a pond from which narrow netted channels lead, into which wild duck may be enticed for capture …   English terms dictionary

  • decoy marketing — UK US noun [U] MARKETING ► a way of marketing a product or service in which a company offers customers a similar product or service of lower quality at about the same price, in order to improve sales of what they are really trying to sell: »Need… …   Financial and business terms

  • decoy — noun di:kɔɪ 1》 a bird or mammal, or an imitation of one, used to lure game. 2》 a person or thing used to mislead or lure someone into a trap. 3》 a pond from which narrow netted channels lead, into which wild duck may be enticed for capture. verb… …   English new terms dictionary

  • decoy — noun /ˈdikɔɪ / (say deekoy) 1. someone who entices or allures, as into a trap, danger, etc. 2. anything used as a lure. –verb (t) /ˈdikɔɪ / (say deekoy), /dəˈkɔɪ / (say duh koy) 3. to lure by or as by a decoy. {variant of coy (now British… …  

  • decoy — I noun allure, allurement, ambush, attraction, bait, blind, camouflage, deception, disguise, diversion, enticement, imitation, inducement, inlex, inveiglement, misleader, simulation, trap, trick associated concepts: entrapment II index bait ( …   Law dictionary

  • decoy — UK US /ˈdiːkɔɪ/ noun [C] MARKETING ► a name that is placed on a company s mailing list (= list of names and addresses of people to whom advertising is sent) in order to check if the list is being used without the owner s permission …   Financial and business terms

  • decoy — noun (C) 1 someone or something used to trick someone into going where you want them to go so that you can catch them, attack them etc: Police have been using mocked up patrol cars as decoys to make drivers slow down. 2 a model of a bird used to… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • decoy — is pronounced with stress on the first syllable as a noun and with variable stress as a verb …   Modern English usage

  • decoy — UK [ˈdiːkɔɪ] / US [ˈdɪkɔɪ] / US [dɪˈkɔɪ] noun [countable] Word forms decoy : singular decoy plural decoys 1) a person or thing that you use to trick someone into going somewhere or doing something 2) a real or artificial bird used for attracting… …   English dictionary

  • decoy — [16] Dutch kooi means ‘cage’ (it comes from Latin cavea ‘cage’, source of English cage). The term came to be applied specifically to a pond which had been surrounded with nets into which wildfowl were lured for capture. English took it over, but… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • decoy — I. noun Etymology: probably from Dutch de kooi, literally, the cage Date: 1630 1. a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture 2. someone or something used to lure or lead another into a trap; especially an artificial bird used to attract… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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