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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
/ ˈprɪzənə /
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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And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
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However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.
I was put in a solitary confinement completely cut off from the outside world without even enjoying basic prisoner rights.
One prisoner, who was left naked and shackled to a cold floor, died of suspected hypothermia.
They also seized the lake gunboats, took an entire Spanish garrison prisoner, and captured a large quantity of stores.
During his mild régime the insurrection increased rapidly, and in one encounter he himself was very near falling a prisoner.
A white woman, Mrs. Henry Jacobi, who had been taken prisoner early in the month, crossed the plain holding a white flag.
The manner of his prisoner, sufficiently mollified the officer; and he made a sign to his attendants to withdraw.
Don Diego beckoned two guards, who immediately drew near their prisoner.
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