Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - hostage
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Hostage
hostage
~ n 1 someone who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands (hold sb hostage (=keep someone as a hostage)) (The group are holding three western tourists hostage. | take sb hostage (=seize someone and use them as a hostage)) (the aid-worker who was taken hostage by a rebel militia) 2 give hostages to fortune to take a risk that may bring trouble in the future, especially by making promises
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(hostages) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A hostage is someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands. N-COUNT 2. If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage. He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist. PHRASE: V inflects 3. If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price... N-VAR: N to n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from hoste Date: 13th century 1. a. a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge that promises will be kept or terms met by the other party b. a person taken by force to secure the taker's demands 2. one that is involuntarily controlled by an outside influence ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition. 2 a pledge or security. Phrases and idioms a hostage to fortune an acquisition, commitment, etc., regarded as endangered by unforeseen circumstances. Derivatives hostageship n. Etymology: ME f. OF (h)ostage ult. f. LL obsidatus hostageship f. L obses obsidis hostage ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
4.
1. заложник he was held (as) hostage —- его держали в качестве заложника to exchange hostages —- обменяться заложниками 2. уст. залог in hostage —- в залог Id: hostages to fortune —- жена и дети; самые близкие люди Id: to give hostages to fortune —- иметь близких людей (детей) 3. оставлять в качестве заложника ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. hostage "person given as security or hostage," either from hoste "guest" (see host) via notion of "a lodger held by a landlord as security," or from L.L. obsidanus "condition of being held as security," from obses "hostage," from ob- "before" + base of sedere "to sit." Modern political/terrorism sense is from 1970s. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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