NOUN
- a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
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operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
the police conducted a sting operation
How To Use sting operation In A Sentence
- Are inducements being offered to young people involved in such sting operations? The Sun
- A sting operation arranged with Vatican police failed to catch the intended recipient. Times, Sunday Times
- During the quarter, Verio began to incur costs associated with the previously announced expansion of its hosting operations.
- The 12 men were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation as police and army officials sought to crack down on illegal quarrying.
- Earlier this week 11 ticket vendors were detained by Pattaya police in a sting operation.
- A sting operation arranged with Vatican police failed to catch the intended recipient. Times, Sunday Times
- Police set up a sting operation to catch the man distributing the crystalline drug, known as Ice.
- All of the evidence came from the uncorroborated testimony of a private informant hired by the sheriff to conduct the sting operation.
- Officers planned a sting operation and handed a marked 500 baht note to pay off one of the men.
- Their operation had been successful for 8 months before police moved in to arrest them in a sting operation.
