captives
- plural of captive.
Example Sentences
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Ms Dryburgh also composed the music and words of The Captives Hymn.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024
At first, leaders of Helping Captives were unsure about the building due to its history.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Captives can be devised so that the risks are so unlikely that a claim will never be made and the premiums return to the business owners or their heirs with little or no tax.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2019
Captives are in-house insurance firms created within corporations, used to insure their operations instead of buying coverage from an outside insurance company.
From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2017
Captives in stories, and in all the imaginative books which I had devoured, always had a friend who, whether a Freemason or not, had means at hand to circumvent the villain!
From In the Yellow Sea by Frith, Henry
