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ˈdrag·net N

1. dragnet (systematic search):

dragnet

2. dragnet (fishing net):

dragnet

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The show takes its name from the police term dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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The league was responsible for what happened to the union members who were swept up in the dragnet following the blast.
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The film continues with a dragnet and chase through the sewers.
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Due to this dragnet, the elderly and infirm civilians volunteered to surrender.
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She tells the police, who launch a dragnet.
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He breaks out of the police dragnet, and hides at a farm which recently had a pestilence infection.
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The political police dragnet was at taxpayer expense.
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Eyewitnesses provided a description of the assailant, and the police spread a dragnet in the sinister haunts of the citys underworld.
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