Synonym: surety. Similar words: a stage, at this stage, host, ghost, hostile, heritage, cottage, shortage. Meaning: ['hɑstɪdʒ /'hɒs-] n. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.
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31. There was none of the drama and relief of a hostage release.
32. The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
33. A senior army officer was held hostage for four months.
34. He must be treated as a hostage of high rank, not as a common prisoner.
35. We must exchange hostage for hostage.
36. She smiled, holding me hostage with her piercing eyes.
37. S policy hostage to electoral politics.
38. You were hostage to your producers.
39. The medical team were captured and taken hostage.
40. Putin is being held hostage by his generals.
41. All hostage situations are dangerous and potentially life-threatening.
42. The rebels promptly took them hostage.
43. I share the right hon. Gentleman's view about the remarks by the hostage takers.
44. She was out, so he held three women staff hostage until he allowed two policemen to take their place.
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45. Mrs Albright says the overall connection is too important to be held hostage to any single issue.
46. At least Shudder To Think refuse to hold history hostage.
47. The Beiruti felt like a hostage in his or her own city.
48. Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.
49. Newly released hostage Frank Reed declares from his hospital balcony that he is looking forward to a three-pound Maine lobster.
50. Put another way, 24 million people are being held hostage to Pyongyang and Washington politics.
51. The Packers are owned by their fans, so the city can not be held hostage for a new stadium.
52. But Eskel Gorov was a prisoner in their hands, and Gorov was not a hostage to lose.
53. Through their eyes, a white woman traveling in a car filled with black folks looked like a hostage.
54. After the police fired tear gas, one hostage made a break for it.
55. He had a problem: His wife and son were being held hostage at gunpoint.
56. Don Nickles, R-Okla. who is holding the bill hostage because Sen.
57. The long-term impact of the crisis will likely be determined by the outcome of the hostage crisis.
58. Three simultaneous hostage crises involving Chechen rebels added to a sense of unease.
59. In effect, Gingrich is holding the Interior Department hostage to his attempt to put new restrictions on Medicare patients.
60. Lynwood Drake then took a 60-year-old woman hostage but shot himself dead when her house was surrounded by armed police.
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