ALL meanings of hostage
hos·tage
H h - noun hostage A person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition. 1
- noun hostage a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another. 1
- noun hostage Archaic. a security or pledge. 1
- noun hostage Obsolete. the condition of a hostage. 1
- verb with object hostage to give (someone) as a hostage: He was hostaged to the Indians. 1
- noun hostage person taken prisoner 1
- noun hostage 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. 0
- countable noun hostage A hostage is someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands. 0
- variable noun hostage If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. 0
- noun hostage a person given to or held by a person, organization, etc, as a security or pledge or for ransom, release, exchange for prisoners, etc 0
- noun hostage the state of being held as a hostage 0
- noun hostage any security or pledge 0
- noun hostage a person given as a pledge, or taken prisoner as by an enemy or terrorist, until certain conditions are met 0
- noun hostage the state of being a hostage 0