Crossword clues for hostage
hostage
- Kidnapping victim
- Way you probably don't want to be held
- Terrorist's captive
- She-goat (anag)
- One used to exert pressure
- One for whom ransom may be paid
- Kidnappee, at times
- Kidnap victim
- Kidnap captive
- Jack's Mannequin song about holdup victim?
- Iran detainee of 1979-81
- Detainee — gash toe (anag)
- Conditional detainee
- Bad thing to be held
- A diplomat may negotiate one's release
- 2005 Bruce Willis thriller
- One way to be held
- A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
- One held for ransom
- Terrorist's insurance
- Behan's "The ___"
- Damon, for one
- Valuable prisoner putting label in socks
- Garden confines male prisoner
- Captive audience at first, say, turning on entertainer
- One held for money
- Someone held label in stockings
- Security men only breaking tool
- Prisoner's name sewn into socks
- Prisoner that almost goes off the rails
- Prisoner starts to tunnel after getting into pipe
- Detainee - gash toe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hostage \Hos"tage\, n. [OE. hostage, OF. hostage, ostage, F. [^o]tage, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old French hostage "person given as security or hostage" (12c., Modern French ôtage), either from hoste "guest" (see host (n.1)) via notion of "a lodger held by a landlord as security," or from Late Latin obsidanus "condition of being held as security," from obses "hostage," from ob- "before" + base of sedere "to sit" [OED]. Modern political/terrorism sense is from 1970.
Wiktionary
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.
WordNet
n. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms [syn: surety]
Wikipedia
A hostage is a person or entity which is held 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 war. However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.
A person who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host.
Hostage is a 2005 American action thriller drama film produced by and starring Bruce Willis and 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 earned mixed to negative reviews and was not a financial success on its original release, earning only slightly more than its production costs.
Hostage is the sixth studio album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band (known at this time as "Rez Band"), released in late 1984.
Hostage is a 2001 thriller novel by Robert Crais, set in fictional Bristo Bay, California, about a small town police chief named Jeff Talley with memories of a failed hostage situation, who must negotiate the same type of situation in his own town if he wants his own family to live.
A hostage is a person or entity held by a captor.
Hostage, The Hostage or Hostages may also refer to:
Hostage, is a Scottish electronic music producer. He is currently signed to British talent agency Primary Talent International and is affiliated with various record labels, most notably Black Butter Records.
Hostage is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Hostage is a 1983 Australian film based on the true story of Christine Maresch, a Wollongong teenager who wound up married to a German bank robber.
Hostage (Persian title: Gerowgan- ) is a 1974 Iranian Persian-genre drama Romantic film directed by Ahmad Shirazi and starring Afrouz, Reza Beyk Imanverdi, Morteza Aghili, Shanaz Tehrani, Ali Azad, Nematollah Gorji, and Ali Miri .
Hostage is a 1985 spoken word and poetry album by Charles Bukowski. The single track was recorded live at Redondo Beach, California in April 1980.
Usage examples of "hostage".
The hostage ships themselves were accelerating forward, their dark shapes backlit by blue halos of ion glow.
The rest had been shot and slashed to pieces by Afghani tribesmen, the women with them killed or taken hostage.
But out there, the ships were real, capable of annihilating Corrin in yet another atomic attack, once they passed the Bridge and killed all the hostages aboard.
Bahzell had hostage right to carry his personal weapons whenever he chose, but one sight of the arbalest by any sentry would raise questions he dared not answer, and he hesitated, loath to abandon it, then whirled as the door opened silently once more.
Fifty more hostages will be shot in case the guilty should not be arrested between now and October 23 by midnight.
Suspecting a concerted movement among the hostages, by which they would cooperate with the assailing foe without, the officer in command of the fort gave orders to secure them with irons.
He said he wanted the Norrington kept close to work with Beal on the hostage rescue, but both of them knew risking Will on a scouting mission was stupid.
They would use the kids as hostages and boogie to the border in that big flashy Jaguar with the helicopters broadcasting every moment of the trip on live TV.
Officially, Brod was a hostage, taken by the women reavers to ensure cooperation by the sailors of the ship they had hired, the Reckless.
Hero Buss had not seen Diana after the first week, but there had been a constant exchange of news among the guards and the people who ran the houses, which filtered down to the hostages, and he knew that Diana was well.
We were very ignorant indeed, he said, for some had made him a Chian, others a native of Smyrna, others of Colophon, but that after all he was a Babylonian, and amongst them was called Tigranes, though, after being a hostage in Greece, they had changed his name to Homer.
He would be thrown to the fish, and she carried off to Darre as a hostage.
Secondly, any aerial approach will probably result in Electro taking retaliatory action directly against his hostages, probably by firing explosive energy bolts at the automobiles.
The talk at Gaillard was of battles and hostages, taxes and levies, of ransom, of the famine and hard times that war had brought to the provinces of the Angevins, and, more than all, of the persistent treachery and menace of the Franks As the castle uplifted its mass against the sky, Plantagenet policy with respect to this menace took shape and became mamfest.
He and Pamela would have hostage value for negotiations if nothing else, and Hsiao did not seem to Tombstone to be the sort of man who would throw away any advantage, however small.