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noun
- 1. a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition: "three hostages were released but only after their families paid an estimated $200,000 to the guerrillas"
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A hostage is a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge or taken by force to secure the taker's demands. Learn the etymology, history, and examples of the word hostage from Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
A hostage is someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in order to force the other people involved to do what the enemy wants. Learn more about the meaning, usage and idioms of hostage with Cambridge Dictionary.
HOSTAGE meaning: 1. someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in order to force the other people involved to do…. Learn more.
A hostage is someone who is captured and held by a person or organization until certain conditions are met. Learn more about the word origin, usage, and related terms of hostage from Collins English Dictionary.
a person given to or held by a person, organization, etc, as a security or pledge or for ransom, release, exchange for prisoners, etc. the state of being held as a hostage. any security or pledge. give hostages to fortune.
A hostage is a prisoner taken by kidnappers and held until the kidnappers get whatever they’re asking for. If you refuse to empty the litter box, your roommate might take your cat as a hostage until you clean it.
A hostage is a person who is captured and held prisoner by a person or group, and who may be injured or killed if people do not do what the person or group is asking. Learn more about the word origin, idioms, collocations and synonyms of hostage with Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
