Look up: Hostage

1. hostage
   [n] - a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
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2. hostage
   Person taken prisoner as a means of exerting pressure on a third party, usually with threats of death or injury. In 1979, 63 staff members of the US embassy in Tehran were taken by the Iranians....
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3. hostage
   Person abducted by force and held unlawfully for political pressure or monetary gain Category: Management in the public and private sector
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4. Hostage
   Hos'tage noun [ Middle English hostage , Old French hostage , ostage , French ôtage , Late Latin hostaticus , ostaticum , for hospitaticum , from Latin hospes guest, host. The first meaning is,...
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5. Hostage
   • (n.) A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
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6. hostage
   hostage, person held by another as a guarantee that certain actions or promises will or will not be carried out. During periods of internal turmoil, insurgents often seize hostages; recent examples include seizures of Americans and other foreigners by militants in Iran (1979–81) and Lebanon (1...
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7. Hostage
   A hostage is a person left as a pledge or surety for the performance of the articles or conditions of a treaty. Since the 19th century the taking or giving of hostages has been scarcely known in the relations of modern communities except in criminal activities, but was formerly almost universal, and...
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8. hostage
   Person taken prisoner as a means of exerting pressure on a third party, usually with threats of death or injury. In 1979, 63 staff members of the US embassy in Tehran were taken by the Iranians. Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait August 1990, about 9,000 Westerners were held in Kuwait and Iraq; they were gradually released later that year. ...
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9. Hostage
   A `hostage` is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over 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 certain acts of war. However, in modern d...
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10. Hostage
    (film) `Hostage` is a 2005 thriller film with Bruce Willis that was directed by Florent Emilio Siri. The film was based on a novel by Robert Crais, and was adapted for the screen by Doug Richardson. The film`s plot is roughly the same as the novel; the main difference is that a complic...
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11. Hostage
    (album) `Hostage` is the eight release, and sixth studio album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band (known at this time as "Rez Band"), released in late 1984. Recording history: Hostage was a radical departure into keyboard-driven New Wave stylings whic...
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12. Hostage
    (novel) `Hostage` is a 2001 thriller novel by work=The New York Times |date=20 August 2001 |accessdate=22 October 2010 -->-->--> set in Bristo Bay, California, about a small town police chief named Jeff Talley with memories of a failed hostage situation, who must negotiate the same typ...
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13. Hostage
    (TV series) `Hostage` is a six-part Irish history documentary television series broadcast on RTÉ One in June 2008 each Friday at 20:30. The series spans a period from the 1970s to the 1990s and features footage from the RTÉ Archive Production Unit of bank raids and political ki...
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