prisoner of war
noun [C] (abbreviation POW)Definition
› a member of the armed forces who has been caught by enemy forces during a war: a prisoner of war campPeople held in prison
(Definition of prisoner of war noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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