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(law) The illegal movement of goods or carrying away of a person. quotations examples
Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away (asportation) of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent.
2011, James W. H. McCord, Criminal Law and Procedure for the Paralegal, page 128