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Definitions of hostage in various dictionaries:
noun - a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
A person held by one party in a conflict as security that specified terms will be met by the opposing party.
One that serves as security against an implied threat: superpowers held hostage to each other by their nuclear arsenals.
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| a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition. |
| a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms |
| A person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition. |
| someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in order to force the other people involved to do what the enemy wants: |
| someone who is made a prisoner in order to force other people to do something: |
| A person held by one party in a conflict as security that specified terms will be met by the opposing party. |
| One that serves as security against an implied threat: superpowers held hostage to each other by their nuclear arsenals. |
| One that is manipulated by the demands of another: "National policies cannot be made hostage to another country ( Alan D. Romberg). |
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A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war. However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. * A person who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host. |