Prisoner

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  • noun. A person held in custody, captivity, or a condition of forcible restraint, especially while on trial or serving a prison sentence.
  • noun. One deprived of freedom of expression or action.
  • idiom. (take no prisoners) To kill all of an enemy or a population.
  • idiom. (take no prisoners) To be ruthless or unrestrained, as in an undertaking.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In mech., a piece of metal used to connect two adjacent parts of the rim of a fly-wheel. The prisoner is usually put in place in recesses in the rim while hot, so that its contraction during cooling will draw the two parts of the rim together very tightly.
  • noun. One who keeps a prison; a jailer.
  • noun. One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
  • noun. A person under arrest or in custody of the law, whether in prison or not: as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
  • noun. A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.
  • noun. One who or that which is deprived of liberty or kept in restraint.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who is confined in a prison.
  • noun. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive.
  • noun. See Base, n., 24.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
  • noun. Any person held against his or her will.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
  • Word Usage
    "But, the judge advocate having made the above statement to the court, from which it appeared that the prosecutor, as such, objected to any adjournment, and from the same statement it appearing also to the court, that the commanding general thought an adjournment to the first of December less prejudicial to the service than an adjournment for three months — the eourt did adjourn for the longer period, either for the greater accommodation of the prisoner, or out of respeet to the interests of the service: for neither reason is ex - pressed in the decision — nor does it appear that any objec - tion was made at the thiie by the prisoner*"
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    POW  con  convict  detainee  hostage  
    Same Context
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    boy  captive  citizen  friend  guard  
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    POW  accused  cageling  cageling  caitiff