he was held hostage

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• Hostage (film) — Infobox Film | name =Hostage caption =Promotional poster for Hostage director = Florent Emilio Siri producer = Mark Gordon Arnold Rifkin Bruce Willis Bob Yari David Wally writer = Robert Crais (novel) Doug Richardson starring = Bruce Willis Kevin …   Wikipedia

• hostage — [[t]hɒ̱stɪʤ[/t]] ♦♦ hostages 1) N COUNT 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. It is hopeful that two hostages will be… …   English dictionary

• Hostage (novel) — Hostage is a 2001 thriller novel by Robert Crais, set in Bristo Bay, California, about a small town police chief named Jeff Talley with memories of a failed hostage situation, who must negotiate the same type of situation in his own town if he… …   Wikipedia

• Hostage — A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive… …   Wikipedia

• Hostage Rescue Team (FBI) — The Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation s elite Special Operations tactical and counterterrorism SWAT Team. [http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0626/findings2.htm The Federal Bureau of Investigation s …   Wikipedia

• hostage — 01. The [hostages] were finally liberated by the police after 3 days. 02. The terrorists have said that they will begin killing the [hostages] at midnight if their demands are not met. 03. The Chicken People of Jupiter are holding our astronauts… …   Grammatical examples in English

• hostage — [13] Despite its similarity, hostage is not related to any of the English words host. It comes via Old French hostage from *obsidāticum, a Vulgar Latin derivative of late Latin obsidātus ‘condition of being held as a security for the fulfilment… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• hostage — [13] Despite its similarity, hostage is not related to any of the English words host. It comes via Old French hostage from *obsidāticum, a Vulgar Latin derivative of late Latin obsidātus ‘condition of being held as a security for the fulfilment… …   Word origins

• Hostage crisis — A crisis develops when one or more terrorists or criminals hold people against their will and try to hold off the authorities by force, threatening to kill the hostages if provoked or attacked. Typically, the party of the hostage taker(s) will… …   Wikipedia

• hostage — hostageship, n. /hos tij/, n., v., hostaged, hostaging. n. 1. a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another. 2. Archaic. a security or pledge. 3. Obs. the condition of a hostage …   Universalium

• Iran hostage crisis — Iran United States hostage crisis A defaced Great Seal of the United States at the former U.S. embassy, Tehran, Iran, as it appeared in 2004 …   Wikipedia