Definition of captive in English:

captive

noun ˈkaptɪvˈkæptɪv

A person who has been taken prisoner or an animal that has been confined.
the policeman put a pair of handcuffs on the captive
Example sentencesExamples
- The rebels generally bring their captives across the border to a Lord's Resistance Army camp in Sudan.
- They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else.
- Why had he suddenly turned around, turned himself in, and gotten help for his captives?
- The United States government is forbidden by its own law from torturing captives and prisoners.
- At one point, the hostage wife demands to take one of the other captives to the ladies' room.
- In the old days there were also slaves, those born as slaves and more recent captives.
- Each rebel carried many, many weapons so they could arm the captives they saved.
- Often, he would hold women as captives until they were sold as slaves at a town held auction.
- Another short chain joins the leg-irons to the handcuffs, ensuring the captives cannot walk properly.
- The government has so far refused to consider the exchange and the captives are condemned to many more years in their jungle prisons.
- Many local leaders, however, continued to sell captives to illegal slave traders.
- The hostage takers have allowed their 14 captives to receive supplies for the first time ever.
- Woomera is the perfect place for a prison camp; even if its captives escape, they won't be able to get far.
- After great battles, the captives were brought to the temple of Dagon to wait in the darkness.
- If his captives were using torture to keep him subdued, he would be too proud to let her know.
- After 1815 British warships who captured slave ships brought freed captives there.
- They have suffered many casualties, and their jails are full to the brim with captives.
- Consternation spread through the armed men, and a subdued elation sprang into the hearts of the captives.
- The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs.
- The small room at the end was obviously the room where the captives had been detained.
Synonyms
prisoner, convict, detainee, inmate
prisoner of war, POW, internee, hostage
slave, bondsman
informal jailbird, con
British informal (old) lag
North American informal yardbird

adjective ˈkaptɪvˈkæptɪv

1Imprisoned or confined.
the farm was used to hold prisoners of war captive
a captive animal
Example sentencesExamples
- A captive wild animal can only show us the loneliness, fear and boredom they experience for the entirety of their miserable lives.
- Killing women and children, taking women captive, torturing and mutilating downed males, scalping and beheading are common practices.
- Transporting captive animals entails confining them in our sense - they do not live well while cooped up - and may result in injury or death.
- Gerstein's studies with captive manatees have shown that the animals cannot hear approaching boats and get out of the way before being hit.
- The Western Plains Zoo is now a leading centre for conservation of large mammals from all over the world as well as running captive breeding programs for Australian native birds and animals.
- He said PAWS objects to circuses keeping wild and exotic animals captive for entertainment.
- Much of what wild animals need to know to survive is also learned behavior, which is another reason why it is notoriously difficult to reintroduce captive animals to the wild.
- Jared's brother gets whacked, and Jared finds himself a prisoner, inexplicably held captive in a jail cell.
- These were then used to hold political prisoners captive.
- I had returned to the bed and was laying down, trying to figure out where I was and who was holding me captive, when the lock clicked on the door.
- She was taken captive early in the plans of imprisonment.
- The 64 captive tigers in China are all descendants of six wild animals seized in 1956.
- In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home.
- He rightly recognized that the Berlin Wall was an abomination and a poignant symbol of the chains imprisoning the captive nations of Eastern Europe.
- And while scientists don't know for sure, Kunz suggests bat midwifery isn't an anomaly restricted to captive populations.
- Through wire mesh, I watch the captive flocks pace out their confinement.
- Interactions usually take place in confined settings with captive animals or, more rarely, with unconfined animals who have been conditioned to come by being fed.
- But they couldn't move, literally, held captive by a security lockdown after a U.S. airliner smashed into a residential area in Queens nearby.
- It would not enjoy territorial contiguity and would continue to be policed by Israeli forces as a virtual prison camp for a captive population.
- Her eyes had grown to a soft gray, and there was a spark there that hadn't been ignited in the whole year she'd been captive in the prison.
Synonyms
confined, caged, incarcerated, locked up, penned up
chained, shackled, fettered, ensnared
restrained, under restraint, restricted, secure
jailed, imprisoned, in prison, interned, detained, in captivity, under lock and key, behind bars, in bondage, taken prisoner
captured
1. 1.1attributive Having no freedom to choose alternatives or to avoid something.
  advertisements at the cinema reach a captive audience
  Example sentencesExamples
  A Bolton Evening News reader correctly described the victims of that kind of marketing as a ‘vulnerable and captive audience’.
  Like patients and pupils, motorists are a captive audience.
  I don't even begrudge them the 30 minutes' worth of commercials they subjected their captive audience to.
  They're a captive audience, with no real choices and no real means to fight for their right to party.
  I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience.
  It's an opportunity for box holders to thank a captive audience for their loyalty, as well as fostering goodwill, generating new business and cementing working relationships.
  So he's got a captive audience out there, and he's appealing to them.
  Again, it looks like the president is not appearing anywhere except with a captive audience in front of him.
  It's all a scheme to build a captive audience for his lectures.
  At its core, The Agenda is another book about how the days of selling to eager, captive customers are over.
  It's just plain exploitation of a captive audience.
  And we didn't have to act as a captive audience while an ego-maniac musician regaled us with stories of his career/tour/hobbies.
  Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
  If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues.
  You have a captive audience and you have to entertain them.
  The company has made no secret of its intention to work with broadcasters and advertisers, and to market products directly to its 400,000-strong captive audience.
  Spin some tall tale which would hold their captive audience enthralled.
  Given a captive audience and a good percentage of business travellers it is easy for a hotel restaurant to get complacent, not so here.
  The transporters take full advantage of the situation by extending sub-standard service to an almost captive clientele.
  Non-stop advertising to a captive audience is a marketing heaven and is exactly what our private rail networks plan to introduce very soon.
2(of a facility or service) controlled by, and typically for the sole use of, an organization.
a captive power plant
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a sector to watch very closely, with the industry having taken on tremendous debt loads to fund their captive finance companies.
- Perhaps they would have developed a captive equipment supplier base and tried to reap all the benefits exclusively.
- The multinational firms included those with large captive business process outsourcing centres serving parent firms abroad.
- UTI Bank is to open a captive call centre to be operational in the next financial year.
- The number of employees working in captive or in-house IT departments of user organisations which are non-IT firms, is around 280,000.
- The issue is particularly important for non-financial firms with captive finance companies.
- The acquired company has a steel making capacity of 1m tonne, matching mills and associated infrastructure including a captive port.
- Among the new operations is Euro Insurances, a captive company of Lease - Plan Corporation.
- The option to captive offshoring is to outsource to a third party vendor abroad, something that is seen as being more cost effective and in some ways more painless.
- The USA also retains residual regulation concerning captive shippers.
- In Delhi, there would be about 73,000 IT professionals of Indian companies doing both captive and outsourcing jobs.
- To meet the power requirement of the plant Vedanta will construct a captive power plant with a capacity of 90 mega watt.
- To avoid heavy losses, the banks had their captive securities firms package the loans and sell them as securities to the proverbial widows and orphans.
- Company leaders note there are independent dairy processors as well as captive dairies Dean Foods is interested in purchasing.
- Extended interswitching is intended to give captive shippers viable alternatives for rail transport.
- Bank of America has firmed up plans to set up a captive BPO outfit in Hyderabad, which will begin operations next month.
- Hundreds of companies are setting up captive insurance units in receptive states.
- SDD, is a captive one, SCC being a captive supplier of SDD.
- Fed up with expensive state assigned-risk pools, DDA rented a captive facility instead - and slashed its expenses by half.
- During this period, HAL also transformed itself into a commercial organisation from a captive industry, with improved efficiency and productivity.
- Company A and Company B relied on their own captive suppliers for the development of this subsystem.
- However, instead of just setting up a massive captive development centre, it wants software developers to use its platform to come out with applications.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin captivus, from capere 'seize, take'.

Definition of captive in US English:

captive

nounˈkaptivˈkæptɪv

A person who has been taken prisoner or an animal that has been confined.
Example sentencesExamples
- The hostage takers have allowed their 14 captives to receive supplies for the first time ever.
- Often, he would hold women as captives until they were sold as slaves at a town held auction.
- Consternation spread through the armed men, and a subdued elation sprang into the hearts of the captives.
- They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else.
- They have suffered many casualties, and their jails are full to the brim with captives.
- At one point, the hostage wife demands to take one of the other captives to the ladies' room.
- Why had he suddenly turned around, turned himself in, and gotten help for his captives?
- In the old days there were also slaves, those born as slaves and more recent captives.
- After great battles, the captives were brought to the temple of Dagon to wait in the darkness.
- The United States government is forbidden by its own law from torturing captives and prisoners.
- The rebels generally bring their captives across the border to a Lord's Resistance Army camp in Sudan.
- The government has so far refused to consider the exchange and the captives are condemned to many more years in their jungle prisons.
- The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs.
- After 1815 British warships who captured slave ships brought freed captives there.
- The small room at the end was obviously the room where the captives had been detained.
- Many local leaders, however, continued to sell captives to illegal slave traders.
- Woomera is the perfect place for a prison camp; even if its captives escape, they won't be able to get far.
- If his captives were using torture to keep him subdued, he would be too proud to let her know.
- Each rebel carried many, many weapons so they could arm the captives they saved.
- Another short chain joins the leg-irons to the handcuffs, ensuring the captives cannot walk properly.
Synonyms
prisoner, convict, detainee, inmate

adjectiveˈkaptivˈkæptɪv

1Imprisoned or confined.
the farm was used to hold prisoners of war captive
a captive animal
Example sentencesExamples
- Through wire mesh, I watch the captive flocks pace out their confinement.
- Gerstein's studies with captive manatees have shown that the animals cannot hear approaching boats and get out of the way before being hit.
- The 64 captive tigers in China are all descendants of six wild animals seized in 1956.
- Her eyes had grown to a soft gray, and there was a spark there that hadn't been ignited in the whole year she'd been captive in the prison.
- The Western Plains Zoo is now a leading centre for conservation of large mammals from all over the world as well as running captive breeding programs for Australian native birds and animals.
- Interactions usually take place in confined settings with captive animals or, more rarely, with unconfined animals who have been conditioned to come by being fed.
- It would not enjoy territorial contiguity and would continue to be policed by Israeli forces as a virtual prison camp for a captive population.
- Much of what wild animals need to know to survive is also learned behavior, which is another reason why it is notoriously difficult to reintroduce captive animals to the wild.
- Killing women and children, taking women captive, torturing and mutilating downed males, scalping and beheading are common practices.
- He said PAWS objects to circuses keeping wild and exotic animals captive for entertainment.
- Jared's brother gets whacked, and Jared finds himself a prisoner, inexplicably held captive in a jail cell.
- He rightly recognized that the Berlin Wall was an abomination and a poignant symbol of the chains imprisoning the captive nations of Eastern Europe.
- I had returned to the bed and was laying down, trying to figure out where I was and who was holding me captive, when the lock clicked on the door.
- And while scientists don't know for sure, Kunz suggests bat midwifery isn't an anomaly restricted to captive populations.
- But they couldn't move, literally, held captive by a security lockdown after a U.S. airliner smashed into a residential area in Queens nearby.
- Transporting captive animals entails confining them in our sense - they do not live well while cooped up - and may result in injury or death.
- She was taken captive early in the plans of imprisonment.
- These were then used to hold political prisoners captive.
- In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home.
- A captive wild animal can only show us the loneliness, fear and boredom they experience for the entirety of their miserable lives.
Synonyms
confined, caged, incarcerated, locked up, penned up
1. 1.1attributive Having no freedom to choose alternatives or to avoid something.
  advertisements at the movie theater reach a captive audience
  Example sentencesExamples
  At its core, The Agenda is another book about how the days of selling to eager, captive customers are over.
  Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
  I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience.
  And we didn't have to act as a captive audience while an ego-maniac musician regaled us with stories of his career/tour/hobbies.
  A Bolton Evening News reader correctly described the victims of that kind of marketing as a ‘vulnerable and captive audience’.
  If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues.
  Given a captive audience and a good percentage of business travellers it is easy for a hotel restaurant to get complacent, not so here.
  So he's got a captive audience out there, and he's appealing to them.
  They're a captive audience, with no real choices and no real means to fight for their right to party.
  You have a captive audience and you have to entertain them.
  I don't even begrudge them the 30 minutes' worth of commercials they subjected their captive audience to.
  It's an opportunity for box holders to thank a captive audience for their loyalty, as well as fostering goodwill, generating new business and cementing working relationships.
  Like patients and pupils, motorists are a captive audience.
  The transporters take full advantage of the situation by extending sub-standard service to an almost captive clientele.
  Again, it looks like the president is not appearing anywhere except with a captive audience in front of him.
  Spin some tall tale which would hold their captive audience enthralled.
  It's all a scheme to build a captive audience for his lectures.
  Non-stop advertising to a captive audience is a marketing heaven and is exactly what our private rail networks plan to introduce very soon.
  It's just plain exploitation of a captive audience.
  The company has made no secret of its intention to work with broadcasters and advertisers, and to market products directly to its 400,000-strong captive audience.
2. 1.2 (of a facility or service) controlled by, and typically for the sole use of, an establishment or company.
  a captive power plant
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fed up with expensive state assigned-risk pools, DDA rented a captive facility instead - and slashed its expenses by half.
  UTI Bank is to open a captive call centre to be operational in the next financial year.
  The issue is particularly important for non-financial firms with captive finance companies.
  SDD, is a captive one, SCC being a captive supplier of SDD.
  To avoid heavy losses, the banks had their captive securities firms package the loans and sell them as securities to the proverbial widows and orphans.
  During this period, HAL also transformed itself into a commercial organisation from a captive industry, with improved efficiency and productivity.
  However, instead of just setting up a massive captive development centre, it wants software developers to use its platform to come out with applications.
  The multinational firms included those with large captive business process outsourcing centres serving parent firms abroad.
  Perhaps they would have developed a captive equipment supplier base and tried to reap all the benefits exclusively.
  The USA also retains residual regulation concerning captive shippers.
  This is a sector to watch very closely, with the industry having taken on tremendous debt loads to fund their captive finance companies.
  The acquired company has a steel making capacity of 1m tonne, matching mills and associated infrastructure including a captive port.
  To meet the power requirement of the plant Vedanta will construct a captive power plant with a capacity of 90 mega watt.
  Among the new operations is Euro Insurances, a captive company of Lease - Plan Corporation.
  Hundreds of companies are setting up captive insurance units in receptive states.
  The option to captive offshoring is to outsource to a third party vendor abroad, something that is seen as being more cost effective and in some ways more painless.
  Company leaders note there are independent dairy processors as well as captive dairies Dean Foods is interested in purchasing.
  In Delhi, there would be about 73,000 IT professionals of Indian companies doing both captive and outsourcing jobs.
  The number of employees working in captive or in-house IT departments of user organisations which are non-IT firms, is around 280,000.
  Extended interswitching is intended to give captive shippers viable alternatives for rail transport.
  Company A and Company B relied on their own captive suppliers for the development of this subsystem.
  Bank of America has firmed up plans to set up a captive BPO outfit in Hyderabad, which will begin operations next month.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin captivus, from capere ‘seize, take’.

单词	captive
释义	Definition of captive in English: captive noun ˈkaptɪvˈkæptɪv A person who has been taken prisoner or an animal that has been confined. the policeman put a pair of handcuffs on the captive Example sentencesExamples The rebels generally bring their captives across the border to a Lord's Resistance Army camp in Sudan. They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else. Why had he suddenly turned around, turned himself in, and gotten help for his captives? The United States government is forbidden by its own law from torturing captives and prisoners. At one point, the hostage wife demands to take one of the other captives to the ladies' room. In the old days there were also slaves, those born as slaves and more recent captives. Each rebel carried many, many weapons so they could arm the captives they saved. Often, he would hold women as captives until they were sold as slaves at a town held auction. Another short chain joins the leg-irons to the handcuffs, ensuring the captives cannot walk properly. The government has so far refused to consider the exchange and the captives are condemned to many more years in their jungle prisons. Many local leaders, however, continued to sell captives to illegal slave traders. The hostage takers have allowed their 14 captives to receive supplies for the first time ever. Woomera is the perfect place for a prison camp; even if its captives escape, they won't be able to get far. After great battles, the captives were brought to the temple of Dagon to wait in the darkness. If his captives were using torture to keep him subdued, he would be too proud to let her know. After 1815 British warships who captured slave ships brought freed captives there. They have suffered many casualties, and their jails are full to the brim with captives. Consternation spread through the armed men, and a subdued elation sprang into the hearts of the captives. The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs. The small room at the end was obviously the room where the captives had been detained. Synonyms prisoner, convict, detainee, inmate prisoner of war, POW, internee, hostage slave, bondsman informal jailbird, con British informal (old) lag North American informal yardbird adjective ˈkaptɪvˈkæptɪv 1Imprisoned or confined. the farm was used to hold prisoners of war captive a captive animal Example sentencesExamples A captive wild animal can only show us the loneliness, fear and boredom they experience for the entirety of their miserable lives. Killing women and children, taking women captive, torturing and mutilating downed males, scalping and beheading are common practices. Transporting captive animals entails confining them in our sense - they do not live well while cooped up - and may result in injury or death. Gerstein's studies with captive manatees have shown that the animals cannot hear approaching boats and get out of the way before being hit. The Western Plains Zoo is now a leading centre for conservation of large mammals from all over the world as well as running captive breeding programs for Australian native birds and animals. He said PAWS objects to circuses keeping wild and exotic animals captive for entertainment. Much of what wild animals need to know to survive is also learned behavior, which is another reason why it is notoriously difficult to reintroduce captive animals to the wild. Jared's brother gets whacked, and Jared finds himself a prisoner, inexplicably held captive in a jail cell. These were then used to hold political prisoners captive. I had returned to the bed and was laying down, trying to figure out where I was and who was holding me captive, when the lock clicked on the door. She was taken captive early in the plans of imprisonment. The 64 captive tigers in China are all descendants of six wild animals seized in 1956. In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home. He rightly recognized that the Berlin Wall was an abomination and a poignant symbol of the chains imprisoning the captive nations of Eastern Europe. And while scientists don't know for sure, Kunz suggests bat midwifery isn't an anomaly restricted to captive populations. Through wire mesh, I watch the captive flocks pace out their confinement. Interactions usually take place in confined settings with captive animals or, more rarely, with unconfined animals who have been conditioned to come by being fed. But they couldn't move, literally, held captive by a security lockdown after a U.S. airliner smashed into a residential area in Queens nearby. It would not enjoy territorial contiguity and would continue to be policed by Israeli forces as a virtual prison camp for a captive population. Her eyes had grown to a soft gray, and there was a spark there that hadn't been ignited in the whole year she'd been captive in the prison. Synonyms confined, caged, incarcerated, locked up, penned up chained, shackled, fettered, ensnared restrained, under restraint, restricted, secure jailed, imprisoned, in prison, interned, detained, in captivity, under lock and key, behind bars, in bondage, taken prisoner captured 1.1attributive Having no freedom to choose alternatives or to avoid something. advertisements at the cinema reach a captive audience Example sentencesExamples A Bolton Evening News reader correctly described the victims of that kind of marketing as a ‘vulnerable and captive audience’. Like patients and pupils, motorists are a captive audience. I don't even begrudge them the 30 minutes' worth of commercials they subjected their captive audience to. They're a captive audience, with no real choices and no real means to fight for their right to party. I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience. It's an opportunity for box holders to thank a captive audience for their loyalty, as well as fostering goodwill, generating new business and cementing working relationships. So he's got a captive audience out there, and he's appealing to them. Again, it looks like the president is not appearing anywhere except with a captive audience in front of him. It's all a scheme to build a captive audience for his lectures. At its core, The Agenda is another book about how the days of selling to eager, captive customers are over. It's just plain exploitation of a captive audience. And we didn't have to act as a captive audience while an ego-maniac musician regaled us with stories of his career/tour/hobbies. Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside. If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues. You have a captive audience and you have to entertain them. The company has made no secret of its intention to work with broadcasters and advertisers, and to market products directly to its 400,000-strong captive audience. Spin some tall tale which would hold their captive audience enthralled. Given a captive audience and a good percentage of business travellers it is easy for a hotel restaurant to get complacent, not so here. The transporters take full advantage of the situation by extending sub-standard service to an almost captive clientele. Non-stop advertising to a captive audience is a marketing heaven and is exactly what our private rail networks plan to introduce very soon. 2(of a facility or service) controlled by, and typically for the sole use of, an organization. a captive power plant Example sentencesExamples This is a sector to watch very closely, with the industry having taken on tremendous debt loads to fund their captive finance companies. Perhaps they would have developed a captive equipment supplier base and tried to reap all the benefits exclusively. The multinational firms included those with large captive business process outsourcing centres serving parent firms abroad. UTI Bank is to open a captive call centre to be operational in the next financial year. The number of employees working in captive or in-house IT departments of user organisations which are non-IT firms, is around 280,000. The issue is particularly important for non-financial firms with captive finance companies. The acquired company has a steel making capacity of 1m tonne, matching mills and associated infrastructure including a captive port. Among the new operations is Euro Insurances, a captive company of Lease - Plan Corporation. The option to captive offshoring is to outsource to a third party vendor abroad, something that is seen as being more cost effective and in some ways more painless. The USA also retains residual regulation concerning captive shippers. In Delhi, there would be about 73,000 IT professionals of Indian companies doing both captive and outsourcing jobs. To meet the power requirement of the plant Vedanta will construct a captive power plant with a capacity of 90 mega watt. To avoid heavy losses, the banks had their captive securities firms package the loans and sell them as securities to the proverbial widows and orphans. Company leaders note there are independent dairy processors as well as captive dairies Dean Foods is interested in purchasing. Extended interswitching is intended to give captive shippers viable alternatives for rail transport. Bank of America has firmed up plans to set up a captive BPO outfit in Hyderabad, which will begin operations next month. Hundreds of companies are setting up captive insurance units in receptive states. SDD, is a captive one, SCC being a captive supplier of SDD. Fed up with expensive state assigned-risk pools, DDA rented a captive facility instead - and slashed its expenses by half. During this period, HAL also transformed itself into a commercial organisation from a captive industry, with improved efficiency and productivity. Company A and Company B relied on their own captive suppliers for the development of this subsystem. However, instead of just setting up a massive captive development centre, it wants software developers to use its platform to come out with applications. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin captivus, from capere 'seize, take'. Definition of captive in US English: captive nounˈkaptivˈkæptɪv A person who has been taken prisoner or an animal that has been confined. Example sentencesExamples The hostage takers have allowed their 14 captives to receive supplies for the first time ever. Often, he would hold women as captives until they were sold as slaves at a town held auction. Consternation spread through the armed men, and a subdued elation sprang into the hearts of the captives. They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else. They have suffered many casualties, and their jails are full to the brim with captives. At one point, the hostage wife demands to take one of the other captives to the ladies' room. Why had he suddenly turned around, turned himself in, and gotten help for his captives? In the old days there were also slaves, those born as slaves and more recent captives. After great battles, the captives were brought to the temple of Dagon to wait in the darkness. The United States government is forbidden by its own law from torturing captives and prisoners. The rebels generally bring their captives across the border to a Lord's Resistance Army camp in Sudan. The government has so far refused to consider the exchange and the captives are condemned to many more years in their jungle prisons. The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs. After 1815 British warships who captured slave ships brought freed captives there. The small room at the end was obviously the room where the captives had been detained. Many local leaders, however, continued to sell captives to illegal slave traders. Woomera is the perfect place for a prison camp; even if its captives escape, they won't be able to get far. If his captives were using torture to keep him subdued, he would be too proud to let her know. Each rebel carried many, many weapons so they could arm the captives they saved. Another short chain joins the leg-irons to the handcuffs, ensuring the captives cannot walk properly. Synonyms prisoner, convict, detainee, inmate adjectiveˈkaptivˈkæptɪv 1Imprisoned or confined. the farm was used to hold prisoners of war captive a captive animal Example sentencesExamples Through wire mesh, I watch the captive flocks pace out their confinement. Gerstein's studies with captive manatees have shown that the animals cannot hear approaching boats and get out of the way before being hit. The 64 captive tigers in China are all descendants of six wild animals seized in 1956. Her eyes had grown to a soft gray, and there was a spark there that hadn't been ignited in the whole year she'd been captive in the prison. The Western Plains Zoo is now a leading centre for conservation of large mammals from all over the world as well as running captive breeding programs for Australian native birds and animals. Interactions usually take place in confined settings with captive animals or, more rarely, with unconfined animals who have been conditioned to come by being fed. It would not enjoy territorial contiguity and would continue to be policed by Israeli forces as a virtual prison camp for a captive population. Much of what wild animals need to know to survive is also learned behavior, which is another reason why it is notoriously difficult to reintroduce captive animals to the wild. Killing women and children, taking women captive, torturing and mutilating downed males, scalping and beheading are common practices. He said PAWS objects to circuses keeping wild and exotic animals captive for entertainment. Jared's brother gets whacked, and Jared finds himself a prisoner, inexplicably held captive in a jail cell. He rightly recognized that the Berlin Wall was an abomination and a poignant symbol of the chains imprisoning the captive nations of Eastern Europe. I had returned to the bed and was laying down, trying to figure out where I was and who was holding me captive, when the lock clicked on the door. And while scientists don't know for sure, Kunz suggests bat midwifery isn't an anomaly restricted to captive populations. But they couldn't move, literally, held captive by a security lockdown after a U.S. airliner smashed into a residential area in Queens nearby. Transporting captive animals entails confining them in our sense - they do not live well while cooped up - and may result in injury or death. She was taken captive early in the plans of imprisonment. These were then used to hold political prisoners captive. In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home. A captive wild animal can only show us the loneliness, fear and boredom they experience for the entirety of their miserable lives. Synonyms confined, caged, incarcerated, locked up, penned up 1.1attributive Having no freedom to choose alternatives or to avoid something. advertisements at the movie theater reach a captive audience Example sentencesExamples At its core, The Agenda is another book about how the days of selling to eager, captive customers are over. Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside. I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience. And we didn't have to act as a captive audience while an ego-maniac musician regaled us with stories of his career/tour/hobbies. A Bolton Evening News reader correctly described the victims of that kind of marketing as a ‘vulnerable and captive audience’. If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues. Given a captive audience and a good percentage of business travellers it is easy for a hotel restaurant to get complacent, not so here. So he's got a captive audience out there, and he's appealing to them. They're a captive audience, with no real choices and no real means to fight for their right to party. You have a captive audience and you have to entertain them. I don't even begrudge them the 30 minutes' worth of commercials they subjected their captive audience to. It's an opportunity for box holders to thank a captive audience for their loyalty, as well as fostering goodwill, generating new business and cementing working relationships. Like patients and pupils, motorists are a captive audience. The transporters take full advantage of the situation by extending sub-standard service to an almost captive clientele. Again, it looks like the president is not appearing anywhere except with a captive audience in front of him. Spin some tall tale which would hold their captive audience enthralled. It's all a scheme to build a captive audience for his lectures. Non-stop advertising to a captive audience is a marketing heaven and is exactly what our private rail networks plan to introduce very soon. It's just plain exploitation of a captive audience. The company has made no secret of its intention to work with broadcasters and advertisers, and to market products directly to its 400,000-strong captive audience. 1.2 (of a facility or service) controlled by, and typically for the sole use of, an establishment or company. a captive power plant Example sentencesExamples Fed up with expensive state assigned-risk pools, DDA rented a captive facility instead - and slashed its expenses by half. UTI Bank is to open a captive call centre to be operational in the next financial year. The issue is particularly important for non-financial firms with captive finance companies. SDD, is a captive one, SCC being a captive supplier of SDD. To avoid heavy losses, the banks had their captive securities firms package the loans and sell them as securities to the proverbial widows and orphans. During this period, HAL also transformed itself into a commercial organisation from a captive industry, with improved efficiency and productivity. However, instead of just setting up a massive captive development centre, it wants software developers to use its platform to come out with applications. The multinational firms included those with large captive business process outsourcing centres serving parent firms abroad. Perhaps they would have developed a captive equipment supplier base and tried to reap all the benefits exclusively. The USA also retains residual regulation concerning captive shippers. This is a sector to watch very closely, with the industry having taken on tremendous debt loads to fund their captive finance companies. The acquired company has a steel making capacity of 1m tonne, matching mills and associated infrastructure including a captive port. To meet the power requirement of the plant Vedanta will construct a captive power plant with a capacity of 90 mega watt. Among the new operations is Euro Insurances, a captive company of Lease - Plan Corporation. Hundreds of companies are setting up captive insurance units in receptive states. The option to captive offshoring is to outsource to a third party vendor abroad, something that is seen as being more cost effective and in some ways more painless. Company leaders note there are independent dairy processors as well as captive dairies Dean Foods is interested in purchasing. In Delhi, there would be about 73,000 IT professionals of Indian companies doing both captive and outsourcing jobs. The number of employees working in captive or in-house IT departments of user organisations which are non-IT firms, is around 280,000. Extended interswitching is intended to give captive shippers viable alternatives for rail transport. Company A and Company B relied on their own captive suppliers for the development of this subsystem. Bank of America has firmed up plans to set up a captive BPO outfit in Hyderabad, which will begin operations next month. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin captivus, from capere ‘seize, take’.
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