Associations to the word «Hostage»
Noun
- Police
- Mediation
- Mediator
- Tactic
- Tripoli
- Carthage
- Convict
- Ronald
- Chavez
- Charlemagne
- Chieftain
- Swap
- Algeria
- Torture
- Plunder
- Somalia
- Constantinople
- Pow
- Capture
- Libya
- Insurgency
- Munich
- Assault
- Retrieve
- Mueller
- Shah
- Israeli
- Antidote
- Romans
- Henchman
- Inauguration
- Tokugawa
- Cia
- Mali
- Moderate
- Treaty
- Comanche
- Lair
- Firearm
- Kyrgyzstan
- Uganda
- Roman
- Gama
- Arrest
- Café
- Leinster
- Wehrmacht
- Stark
- Scenario
- Ambassador
- Piracy
- Fergus
- Manila
- Joker
- Nur
- Counter
- Revolutionary
- Shoot
- Aura
- Bandit
- Combatant
- Olaf
- Sulu
- Moscow
- Gotham
- Mccarthy
- Parole
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Wiktionary
HOSTAGE, noun. 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.
HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR, noun. (politics) (legal) A person who negotiates with a person, or groups of persons, for the release of a person, or groups of persons.
HOSTAGE NEGOTIATORS, noun. Plural of hostage negotiator
HOSTAGE TAKER, noun. Alternative spelling of hostage-taker
HOSTAGE TAKERS, noun. Plural of hostage taker
Dictionary definition
HOSTAGE, noun. A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.