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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prisoner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prisoner of conscience (=someone who is in prison because they have followed their beliefs about what is right or morally good to do)
▪ Vaclav Havel was a prisoner of conscience who later became president of Czechoslovakia.
escaped prisoner
▪ an escaped prisoner
hold sb prisoner/hostage/captive
▪ A senior army officer was held hostage for four months.
political prisoner
prisoner of conscience
prisoner of war
taken prisoner
▪ Both boys were taken prisoner.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
escaped
▪ The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner.
▪ But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger, an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder.
▪ The escaped prisoner saw us and screamed as he turned to run.
▪ They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information.
▪ That morning Sir Henry and Barrymore argued about Selden, the escaped prisoner.
▪ Deserters? Escaped prisoners of war?
▪ He is hiding from some one, too, but he is not an escaped prisoner.
▪ We were nothing to do with the prison camp or the escaped prisoners.
fellow
▪ Fourteen out of 15 of his fellow prisoners died.
▪ Now the din from my fellow prisoners multiplied.
▪ In Long Kesh Prison, fellow prisoners used to save for him part of their daily allowance of milk.
▪ Truong Chinh and most of his fellow prisoners were released.
▪ He preached to and instructed his fellow prisoners.
▪ Escobar escaped from the ranch-style prison with his brother Roberto Escobar and eight fellow prisoners.
other
▪ He joined every other prisoner in the mess hall for breakfast each morning at six-thirty.
▪ They picked him and one other as their prisoners, and let the others free to spread the news.
▪ He was made a trusty and the other prisoners got on well with him.
▪ Eddie Browning says he's angry over long delays facing other prisoners seeking appeal hearings.
▪ He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners.
▪ The wrongfully convicted prisoner will be treated identically to any other prisoner by prison officers.
▪ One in five were scared of other prisoners.
▪ Subservience is also shown because other prisoners see it as a mask, necessary for survival for weaker or less competent prisoners.
political
▪ There are some 1,800 political prisoners.
▪ In 1980, Ne Win released all political prisoners and invited those like Nu who had been in exile to return.
▪ The goal is modest, like winning the release of a political prisoner 2.
▪ Adopt a family whose breadwinner is a political prisoner or has been executed.
▪ But he was not the criminal type. Political prisoner?
▪ Growing pressure for democratic change On Oct. 3 the Appeal Court overturned the conviction and sentencing of two prominent political prisoners.
▪ Political parties are trying to claim back property confiscated more than 60 years ago, and political prisoners are demanding financial compensation.
taken
▪ In addition to this price for their success, the Allies had lost 169 raiders killed and about 200 taken prisoner.
▪ Ninety-one thousand taken prisoner including twenty-four generals.
■ NOUN
remand
▪ Keeping remand prisoners in police stations is another matter and is reprehensible.
▪ Trained negotiators pursuaded a remand prisoner to release the man. unharmed.
▪ The problem of remand prisoners, is particularly acute.
▪ In addition, more remand prisoners were held in police or court cells.
▪ If 1988 is any guideline only 60 percent of these remand prisoners will eventually receive custodial sentences.
▪ For remand prisoners in particular, whose numbers increased sharply during the year, conditions were particularly poor.
▪ Around 700 warders are stationed at the Belfast jail which houses loyalist and republican remand prisoners and only a few sentenced prisoners.
▪ In the case of remand prisoners there is often no opportunity to work, even if they wish to do so.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Detective Constable Julie Bignall was reported for allowing a prisoner to plait her hair.
become
▪ As people avoid more and more they become a prisoner of their anxiety.
▪ I never wanted to become a prisoner of my overhead.
▪ Researchers risk becoming prisoners, rather than critics, of government and its agents.
▪ I was becoming a prisoner of my overhead.
▪ She and her husband were shocked and appalled and wondered if they would become prisoners in their own home.
▪ Fernand Braudel was serving as a lieutenant on the Rhine frontier and became a prisoner of war.
bring
▪ Not only did he needlessly place himself in danger, but no charges were brought against his prisoners.
▪ The drive to bring justice to the prisoners is attracting more mainland support.
escape
▪ He traded places with a young married man, who was to be slaughtered in retribution for an escaped prisoner.
free
▪ In three days of releases in early September 465 prisoners were reported to have been freed.
▪ Who set me free - warder or prisoner - I have no idea.
▪ The rules are simple in that all you have to do is to move the blocks around to free the prisoner.
▪ It worried Lord Auckland that a court could now refuse to free a prisoner whom his creditor wished to see released.
▪ Farc commanders said the freed prisoners would not return to combat.
▪ She had decided not to free the prisoners, so now she had to see what happened to the passengers.
hold
▪ It was a gesture of strength to the man who held them prisoner, if nothing else.
▪ The camp held about 250 prisoners.
▪ Then they are trucked long distances to toil on remote plantations where they are held prisoner and compelled to work at gunpoint.
▪ The population has always been held as prisoners and kept dependent upon others.
▪ Security at prisons holding category A prisoners is already very tight, with rigorous searching procedures.
▪ It is certified to hold 58 prisoners.
▪ A contract has been placed for the supply of this equipment to prisons that hold category A prisoners.
▪ The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed.
keep
▪ And we keep him prisoner here till he signs.
▪ Usually they keep the prisoners first in the jail on Danilowiczalski Street.
▪ She told how he kept her prisoner in the bunker for a week when she refused to pay up.
▪ He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron.
▪ She was kept prisoner in Edinburgh and then in a castle on an islet in Loch Leven near Kinross.
▪ He keeps her a prisoner in a fish pond where he stores the catch.
▪ It wouldn't have kept the prisoners in, but they could have gone anyway had they chosen to do so.
▪ His pleasure is keeping me prisoner.
release
▪ The Robe of Human Hands ... the enchantment that would release the prisoners ... Yes.
▪ The king also released any prisoner that Leonard went to visit.
▪ There is no historical evidence for the custom of releasing a prisoner at festival time, although such an amnesty was possible.
▪ Not believing Mays was gone, the mob ransacked the jail, releasing white prisoners.
▪ The first step needed for building confidence is for the regime to release all political prisoners.
▪ Amnesty International is also harnessing text messages to apply speedy pressure on governments to release political prisoners.
take
▪ Rudolf Lenzner and his crew baling out to be taken prisoner when the bomber crashed at Bur Marrad.
▪ Just watch out: the robots take no prisoners.
▪ Jim Almonds had become separated from the rest and was taken prisoner.
▪ Jarauta was taken prisoner, and his identity became known when he was addressed by one of the other captives.
▪ Having been taken prisoner by Sicilians, he served as a galley-slave for two years.
▪ Shortly thereafter, the confessed assassin was taken prisoner.
▪ Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army.
▪ I took my prisoner to my secret cave on the other side of the island and gave him food and drink.
treat
▪ In Central News tonight On trial: Did a policeman treat a prisoner like an animal?.
▪ He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the soldiers were either killed or taken prisoner.
▪ enemy prisoners
▪ Her father spent three years as a prisoner of war in Korea.
▪ It's a science fiction story about people being taken to another planet as prisoners.
▪ Mann was held prisoner in the back of the Chevrolet and told she was going to be killed.
▪ My parents were very strict. Sometimes I felt like a prisoner in my own home.
▪ The prisoners are allowed an hour's exercise every day.
▪ The county has 90 prisoners in a jail designed for 29.
▪ The state now has 152,000 prisoners in 32 prisons.
▪ There have been reports of the systematic torture of political prisoners.
▪ Thousands of political prisoners remain imprisoned, frequently as a result of unfair trials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A prisoner release organisation was helping him find accommodation.
▪ But Eskel Gorov was a prisoner in their hands, and Gorov was not a hostage to lose.
▪ But the typist turns out to be a prisoner serving a sentence for rape.
▪ The prisoners can each be sure of benefiting if they have a previously agreed pact never to confess, whatever the circumstances.
▪ The prisoners who went insane were those who were illiterate and without imagination.
▪ The courtrooms were on the upper floors, and the prisoners were brought into the service bay.
▪ We have lost a division general and two or three regiments of our soldiers as prisoners.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prisoner

Prisoner \Pris"on*er\, n. [F. prisonnier.]

  1. One who is confined in a prison.
    --Piers Plowman.

  2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
    --Bouvier.

    Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing.
    --Keble.

    Prisoner's base. See Base, n., 24.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prisoner

"person in prison, captive person," late 14c. (earlier "a jailer," mid-13c., but this did not survive Middle English), from Old French prisonier "captive, hostage" (12c., Modern French prisonnier), from prisoun (see prison (n.)). Captives taken in war have been called prisoners since mid-14c.; phrase prisoner of war dates from 1670s (see also POW). Prisoner's dilemma attested from 1957.

Wiktionary
prisoner

n. 1 A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence. 2 Any person held against their will.

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WordNet
prisoner

n. a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war [syn: captive]

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Wikipedia
Prisoner (TV series)

Prisoner was an Australian soap opera set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. In the United States and United Kingdom it was known as Prisoner: Cell Block H, with the same title and Caged Women in Canada. The series, produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation, aired on Network Ten for 692 episodes between 27 February 1979 and 11 December 1986. Originally, it was planned as a 16-part series.

The show was inspired by the British television drama Within These Walls, which was moderately successful in Australia. The Prisoner producers approached Googie Withers of Within These Walls to play the prison governor, but she declined. Due to an injunction requested by UK-based ATV, which considered the title too similar to their The Prisoner, overseas broadcasters had to change the series' name. In March 2012 it was announced that Prisoner would be "reimagined" on Foxtel in a new version, Wentworth.

Prisoner (disambiguation)

A prisoner is someone incarcerated in a prison, jail or similar facility.

Prisoner or The Prisoner may also refer to:

  • Prisoner of war, a soldier in wartime, held as by an enemy
  • Political prisoner, someone held in prison for their ideology
Prisoner (Cher album)

Prisoner is the 16th studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on October 22, 1979 by Casablanca Records. The album was a commercial failure and failed to the charts. " Hell on Wheels" was released as the lead single which had a moderate success, peaking at number fifty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

Prisoner

A prisoner, also known as an inmate or detainee, is a person who is deprived of liberty against his or her will. This can be by confinement, captivity, or by forcible restraint. The term applies particularly to those on trial or serving a prison sentence in a prison.

Prisoner (The Jezabels album)

Prisoner is the debut studio album by Australian indie rock band The Jezabels. It was released on 16 September 2011 through PIAS Recordings, Mom + Pop Music and Dine Alone Records. It was recorded at Sydney's Attic Studios with producer Lachlan Mitchell and mixed by Peter Katis. Prisoner was news.com.au Entertainment's album of the week during the week of its release. The album won the 2011 Australian Music Prize and was described as "a cocktail of power and elegance, rising like a force to be reckoned with. Dramatic, creative songwriting is delivered with ferocity by commanding front woman Hayley Mary. The Jezabels have firmly cemented their place in the Australian music industry and abroad."

Prisoner (song)

"Prisoner" is the second track and second single from 311's 1997 album Transistor. When being interviewed in 1999, SA Martinez stated that "Prisoner" is his favorite 311 song. The song is about being trapped in a material plane and about someone not being themselves.

Prisoner (Dokken song)

"Prisoner" is a song by American heavy metal band Dokken, released in 1988 on the album Back for the Attack. The song peaked at number 37 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States.

Prisoner (The Weeknd song)

"Prisoner" is a song by Canadian recording artist The Weeknd featuring American singer Lana Del Rey for his second studio album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). The artists co-wrote the song with Illangelo, who co-produced it with The Weeknd.

Prisoner (Steve Angello song)

"Prisoner" is a song recorded by Greek-Swedish DJ and music producer Steve Angello for his debut studio album " Wild Youth". The song features singer-songwriter Gary Go.

"Prisoner" was released as Wild Youth's sixth and final single on 20 November 2015. It was originally titled, "Prisoner (Let Me Go)," with Dougy Mandagi intended to fill in the vocal gap of the song. But Mandagi was later replaced by Gary Go, with the song's title shortened to, "Prisoner."

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Usage examples of "prisoner".

As it contests the dead labor accumulated against it, living labor always seeks to break the fixed territorializing structures, the national organizations, and the political figures that keep it prisoner.

Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.

Colborne, as exceptions to the class of cases fit to be included in an amnesty, there must probably among the prisoners be some flagrant and prominent cases of delinquency, which it would not be just or advisable to comprehend in the general lenity.

The boldness of his entrance into their holly of holies, his affrontery, the ease with which he had taken their prisoner from them had impressed them, while the fact that Sobito, a witch-doctor, had fled from him in terror had assured them of his supernatural origin.

Admiral Bossu, seeing that further resistance was useless, and that his ship was aground on a hostile shore, his fleet dispersed and three-quarters of his soldiers and crew dead or disabled, struck his flag and surrendered with 300 prisoners.

It was later discovered that Japanese scientists subjected Chinese prisoners of war to horrifying experiments with such lethal bioagents as anthrax, cholera, typhoid, and plague.

There was an end, at last, to the dizzy gyrations of the hole mto which they were packed, and the prisoners, foul with the slime of CAPTAIN CAUTION 379 the cable tier and sore from head to foot because of the bed of wet and stinking rope on which they had lain interminably, clambered weakly up the companion-ladders to find the barque hove-to under heavy skies in the lee of the crowded dockyard of Sheerness, at the mouths of the Thames and the Medway, and under the guns of two lowering forts.

That charge was probably beatable, but not the reckless endangerment of a prisoner, impersonating an officer, withholding evidence .

That charge was probably beatable, but not the reckless endangerment of a prisoner, impersonating an officer, withholding evidence.

Heinz Berner watched in amazement as the Obergefreiter sat casually on the wooden bench that served as a bed and gestured to the prisoner to do likewise.

He waited, raised above the people, his hands bound behind his back, while the executioners readied the other prisoner: a witch, bonnetless and with bloody patches on her scalp.

It is the bounden duty of counsel to produce it, especially where evidence is so strong that no speech could save the prisoner.

Your puissant knights did hurtle to the attack, did brast their spears on the oafish defenders who didst flee in panic, did thus free the prisoners.

The old man, for the prisoner was aged as well as feeble, turned his look on the still kneeling Bravo, thoughtfully, and continued.

When this pious duty was performed, both the Bravo and Gelsomina busied themselves a little time in contributing to the bodily comforts of the prisoner, and then they departed in company.