I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hold sb prisoner/hostage/captive
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A senior army officer was held hostage for four months.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
audience
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Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience .
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Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.
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He was a real showman, and however he was feeling, he always rose to the bait of a captive audience !
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And so when I talk to a young person I have a captive audience .
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His family were a captive audience , especially at meal times, which were central to their day.
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But beyond the hedge, Mundin had run into a captive audience .
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He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
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It can be said he was addressing a captive audience ... of stooges.
breeding
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Her captive breeding programmes are being attempted.
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If they die the whole campaign to save the condor by captive breeding could come under renewed attack.
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Public aquariums are a good source of information regarding the status of captive breeding of invertebrates.
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The scheme will turn the 36-acre Regents Park site into a first-rate animal conservation and captive breeding centre.
market
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In the past, manufacturers had a captive market .
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Philip Leapor did not have a captive market .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the breeding of captive animals
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For that reason, modern nation-states are free to unleash devastating reprisals against their captive nations who attempt liberation.
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Her captive breeding programmes are being attempted.
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Just how essential this help can be was documented over 18 years by a researcher studying these animals in a captive environment.
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Not that socially imposed monogamy need extend to captive slaves.
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The outcome of these behaviours in a captive colony is the formation of one-male groups similar to those found in the wild.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me?
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While the camps remain, the villagers are themselves captive .
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
take
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Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed.
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It was like the first stage of the revolution, i. e., taking the king captive .
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They often took captives during their raids, and sometimes raised them in the tribe.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the captives were kept in a darkened room with their hands tied.
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Armed gunmen broke into the church and took the priest captive .
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The rebels promise to release their captives unharmed if their demands are met.
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The rebels promised to release their captives unharmed if the government did as they said.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beginners are not captives of their past; they are eager to learn, and able to learn.
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But what pleasure to be left hanging as the sticky captive in the center of the silvery web!
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By night he is a prisoner, the last captive of Tangentopoli.
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Captors and captives stood in dumb impatience for the roll-call to be finished.
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In many different cultures the captives taken in war have tended to be women rather than men.
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They had gone into a huddle, obviously discussing their captives.
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Would he spare the lives of captives?