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hostage noun bond, captive, collateral, guarantee, internee, obses, pledge, political prisoner, prisoner, real security, security Associated concepts: false imprisonment, kidnapping, ransom HOSTAGE. A person delivered into the possession of a public enemy in the
time of war, as a security for the performance of a contract entered into
between the belligerents.
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Last month, the jury convicted both men of three counts of hostage-taking resulting in death and three counts of conspiracy. Toronto -- A four-month hostage-taking crisis in Iraq, targeting a group of four men with the "militantly pacifist" Christian Peacemaker Teams organization, ended happily for three of them. A parole officer was killed in a prison hostage-taking in British Columbia in 1975. |
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