prisoner

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♦♦ pris|on|er /pr'ɪzənər/ (prisoners)
1 [N-COUNT]
A prisoner is a person who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime that they have committed.
The committee is concerned about the large number of prisoners sharing cells.
= inmate
2 [N-COUNT] also hold/take n N
A prisoner is a person who has been captured by an enemy, for example in war.
...wartime hostages and concentration-camp prisoners...
He was taken prisoner in North Africa in 1942.
3 [N-COUNT] N of n
If you say that you are a prisoner of a situation, you mean that your are trapped by it.
We are all prisoners of our childhood and feel an obligation to it...po|liti|cal pris|on|er (political prisoners)
[N-COUNT]
A political prisoner is someone who has been imprisoned for criticizing or disagreeing with their own government.pris|on|er of con|science (prisoners of conscience)
[N-COUNT]
Prisoners of conscience are people who have been put into prison for their political or social beliefs or for breaking the law while protesting against a political or social system.
= political prisonerpris|on|er of war (prisoners of war)
[N-COUNT]
Prisoners of war are soldiers who have been captured by their enemy during a war and kept as prisoners until the end of the war.
= POW

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