decoy is a kind of bait used in hunting and fishing which serves to attract animals, especially birds or fish.
It is usually prepared with the objective of attracting the animal's attention, so that it can be captured right away. It can also be called barley.
decoy figuratively
Because it has this function, the word decoy is also used figuratively, to characterize a behavior of something or someone whose objective is deceive or deceive another person.
In this sense, the person uses any artifice to attract the attention of the other, in order to deceive, deceive or lead to error.
Examples:
"Rui used a decoy to deceive Mariana."
"Their objective is to restore democracy and rescue the population from poverty, deceit and corruption."
At the legal framework, decoy refers to every maneuver or everything that is done with the purpose of deceiving someone, inducing that person to error. It means that a person acts in bad faith, with the intention of gaining an advantage by deceiving someone or by committing a fraud.
"I was completely misled into that contract by the deception he used on me."
Read more about the meaning of Fraud.
already in the agriculture sector, the bait is the part of the cultivated land that is washed away by the current.
Synonyms of decoy
Depending on the sense in which it is used, the term can be replaced by synonyms such as:
- illusion,
- lie
- mistake,
- scam, flattery,
- flattery,
- adulation,
- spar,
- handle,
- pretending,
- trickery,
- decoy,
- bait,
- attractive,
- teaser,
- deceit.
See also the meanings of Illusion, Fraud, deceive, Lie and scam.