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Definición y significado de hostage
Definición
hostage (n.)
1.a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
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Merriam Webster
HostageHos"tage (?), n. [OE. hostage, OF. hostage, ostage, F. ôtage, LL. hostaticus, ostaticum, for hospitaticum, fr. L. hospes guest, host. The first meaning is, the state of a guest, hospitality; hence, the state of a hostage (treated as a guest); and both these meanings occur in Old French. See Host a landlord.] 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.
Your hostages I have, so have you mine;
And we shall talk before we fight. Shak.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon.
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⇨ definición de hostage (Wikipedia)
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Frases
⇨ hold someone hostage • hostage taker • take hostage • take someone hostage • take...hostage • take/hold (someone) hostage
⇨ 1975 AIA building hostage crisis • 1975 Dutch train hostage crisis • 1975 Indonesian consulate hostage crisis • 1977 Dutch school hostage crisis • 1977 Dutch train hostage crisis • 1978 Dutch province hall hostage crisis • 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis • 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan • A Hostage and the Meaning of Life • Alta View Hospital hostage incident • August 2009 Egyptian hostage escape • Beslan school hostage crisis • Black Sea hostage crisis • Brian Keenan (writer/hostage) • Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis • Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis • Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis • Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis • Ennepetal hostage taking • Gladbeck hostage crisis • Held Hostage • Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis • Hostage (TV series) • Hostage (album) • Hostage (disambiguation) • Hostage (film) • Hostage (movie) • Hostage (novel) • Hostage Barricade Team • Hostage Life • Hostage Rescue Force • Hostage Rescue Team (FBI) • Hostage Response Group • Hostage Watch (Back to You) • Hostage Working Group • Hostage crisis • Hostage for a Day • Hostage of Love • Hostage of Time • Hostage rescue • Hostage taking act • Hostage-taker • Hostage-taking • International response to the Beslan hostage crisis • Iran hostage crisis • Japanese embassy hostage crisis • Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis • Lebanon hostage crisis • List of hostage crises • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the 1979 Hostage Crisis • Mitsubishi Bank Hostage incident • Moscow hostage crisis chemical agent • Moscow theater hostage crisis • Ouvea cave hostage taking • Ouvéa cave hostage taking • Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis • Russian hostage crisis • Sablé-sur-Sarthe hostage crisis • Sahara hostage crisis 2003 • Salt Lake City Public Library hostage incident • School hostage Netherlands 1977 • Suburban Hostage • Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis • The Hostage (film) • The Hostage (play) • The Hostage (song) • The Hostage Tower • The Hostage of Zir • Timeline of the Beslan school hostage crisis • Torp hostage crisis • Treehouse Hostage • Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis
Diccionario analógico
hostage (n.)
captive; prisoner; detainee; convict; con; inmate; yard bird; yardbird[Classe]
(ravishing; abduction; kidnaping; kidnapping; snatch), (kidnaper; kidnapper; abductor; snatcher)[termes liés]
captive, prisoner[Hyper.]
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