prisoner
/ˈprɪz·ə·nər/, /ˈprɪz·nər/ n [C]Definition
› a person who is kept in prison as punishment › A prisoner is also someone who is under the control of someone else and not physically free: Two security guards were held/taken prisoner during the robbery.
(Definition of prisoner n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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