rope in
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Verb
rope in (third-person singular simple present ropes in, present participle roping in, simple past and past participle roped in)
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become involved in something they are reluctant to do; to draw into something.
- 2020 August 30, “Denotified 68 Years Ago, ‘Criminal’ Tribes Still Fight Stigma, Poverty”, in Outlook India:
- In March last year, the Supreme Court had set aside its own 2009 judgment and set six convicts free, who were earlier sent to death row. […] The Supreme Court said the six men were falsely implicated and roped in by the police.
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