transcription, транскрипция: [ prɪzənə(r) ]
( prisoners)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A prisoner is a person who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime that they have committed.
The committee is concerned about the large number of prisoners sharing cells.
= inmate
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2.
A prisoner is a person who has been captured by an enemy, for example in war.
...wartime hostages and concentration-camp prisoners...
He was taken prisoner in North Africa in 1942.
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3.
If you say that you are a prisoner of a situation, you mean that your are trapped by it.
We are all prisoners of our childhood and feel an obligation to it...
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