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prisoner
[ priz-uh-ner, priz-ner ]
noun
- a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- a person or thing that is deprived of liberty or kept in restraint.
prisoner
/ ˈɪəə /
noun
- a person deprived of liberty and kept in prison or some other form of custody as a punishment for a crime, while awaiting trial, or for some other reason
- a person confined by any of various restraints
we are all prisoners of time
- take no prisoners informal.to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
- take someone prisonerto capture and hold someone as a prisoner, esp as a prisoner of war
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Example Sentences
Noting the black triangle sewed to the man’s uniform, the Nazis’ label for trans prisoners, Bertie realizes the man must have escaped from nearby Dachau.
The false positives came from urine drug tests given to prisoners undergoing treatment for drug addiction, and were not part of the random drug tests that inmates could face when they’re suspected of drug use.
One group which says is defending the rights of prisoners has claimed responsibility for attacks over the past two weeks in a series of posts on the Telegram social network, French media is reporting.
A convicted robber who was at least the ninth person to escape a reentry program facility for California state prisoners this year has been captured in Las Vegas.
It was where many of those eastern concentration camp prisoners ended up.
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