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📖 Определения и значения для слова prisoner

📒 a person who is kept in prison as a punishment, or while they are waiting for trial

  • The number of prisoners serving life sentences has fallen.
  • They called for the prisoners to be released.
  • They are demanding the release of all political prisoners.

📒 a person who has been captured, for example by an enemy, and is being kept somewhere

  • He was taken prisoner by rebel soldiers.
  • They are holding her prisoner and demanding a large ransom.
  • For three days they kept him a prisoner.
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