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What is another word for mantraps?

Pronunciation: [mˈantɹaps] (IPA)

Mantraps are devices designed to capture or impede unauthorized personnel attempting to enter a restricted area. Synonyms for mantraps include security gates, security checkpoints, access control systems, turnstiles, and security barriers. These security measures not only ensure the safety of personnel, but they also protect against theft, sabotage, and other forms of criminal activity. Mantraps may be integrated with CCTV, biometric identification systems, and other security technologies to enhance their effectiveness. Properly maintained and monitored mantraps can be a reliable and cost-effective means of securing high-risk areas and preventing unauthorized access.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Mantraps

There are two peculiarly mean and unmanly legal mantraps in which this wretched man is tripped up.
"Eugenics and Other Evils"
G. K. Chesterton
Another story is connected with the old "Hind's Head" at Bracknell, which was another of these mantraps, where many travellers slept to rise no more.
"English Villages"
P. H. Ditchfield
From Madrid to El Pardo was one of Don Francisco's favorite walks, out past the jail, where over the gate is written an echo of his teaching: "Abhor the crime but pity the criminal," past the palace of Moncloa with its stately abandoned gardens, and out along the Manzanares by a road through the royal domain where are gamekeepers with shotguns and signs of "Beware the mantraps," then up a low hill from which one sees the Sierra Guadarrama piled up against the sky to the north, greenish snow-peaks above long blue foothills and all the foreground rolling land full of clumps of encinas, and at last into the little village with its barracks and its dilapidated convent and its planetrees in front of the mansion Charles V built.
"Rosinante to the Road Again"
John Dos Passos

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