Definition of "captives" []

• Plural form of captive.; persons held prisoner (noun)

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• "The comparison to WWII captives is ridiculous: captured German soldiers were not trying to get into court to argue that they had not been members of the German army."
• "To them we are already the "Great Satan", so adding that we pretend to drown our captives is hardly going to recruit anyone who wasn't already coming anyway."
• "British officials have been criticised for giving the kidnappers of the peace activist Norman Kember time to escape to avoid the risk of a gun battle with Special Forces troops sent to rescue him and his two fellow captives from a house in central Baghdad in March."