(~s)
1.
A ~ person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed. (LITERARY)
Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a ~ animal.
ADJ
•
A ~ is someone who is ~.
He described the difficulties of surviving for four months as a ~.
= prisoner
N-COUNT
2.
A ~ audience is a group of people who are not free to leave a certain place and so have to watch or listen. A ~ market is a group of people who cannot choose whether or where to buy things.
We all performed action songs, sketches and dances before a ~ audience of parents and patrons...
Airlines consider business travellers a ~ market.
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If you take someone ~ or hold someone ~, you take or keep them as a prisoner.
Richard was finally released on February 4, one year and six weeks after he’d been taken ~...
PHRASE: V inflects