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hostage in English
- hostage⇄expr. give hostages to fortune, to have persons or things that one may lose.
Ex. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune (Francis Bacon). - hostage⇄hostage, noun.
1a. a person seized by an enemy, political group, or criminal and held to obtain a demand, such as safe passage, a large sum of money, or the surrender of armed resistance.
Ex. Militants seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran and an