How to pronounce“hostage”in English
was raised kind of in the atmosphere of all of this and even back then people conflated the revolution itself with the
hostage crisis as just one story. It all is spoken in one breath. But in fact the revolution was in February of 1979 and
the hostage crisis didn't break out until November. So what was happening in the meantime? Well, one of the things
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Definitions of “hostage”
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.
“And there with alle was made hostage on bothe partyes and made hit as sure as hit myghte be that whether party had the vyctory soo to ende. "And therewithal was made hostage on both parties, and made it as sure as it might be, that whether party had the victory, so to end."”
A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.
“For example, a subject surprised in the act of robbery may take a hostage to use as a shield.”
To give (someone or something) as a hostage to (someone or something else).
“[…] in voting the prolongation of the military budget on a war estimate for a span of three years, contemplates, it is said, a speedy reoccupation of the six departments of France which were hostaged to the Germans at the termination of the war.”
To hold (someone or something) hostage, especially in a way that constrains or controls the person or thing held, or in order to exchange for something else.
“Flexibility of hours is now hostaged to availability of work. Yet, despite these obvious drawbacks the appeal to nurses of freelancing seems to live on. The chief advantage of agency work is the lack of commitment or not being bound by contract ...”
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