Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person held in custody, captivity, or a condition of forcible restraint, especially while on trial or serving a prison sentence.
- noun One deprived of freedom of expression or action.
- idiom (take no prisoners) To kill all of an enemy or a population.
- idiom (take no prisoners) To be ruthless or unrestrained, as in an undertaking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., a piece of metal used to connect two adjacent parts of the rim of a fly-wheel. The prisoner is usually put in place in recesses in the rim while hot, so that its contraction during cooling will draw the two parts of the rim together very tightly.
- noun One who keeps a prison; a jailer.
- noun One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
- noun A person under arrest or in custody of the law, whether in prison or not: as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
- noun A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.
- noun One who or that which is deprived of liberty or kept in restraint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is confined in a prison.
- noun A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive.
- noun See
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person
incarcerated in aprison , while ontrial or serving asentence . - noun Any person held against his or her will.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
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Examples
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But, the judge advocate having made the above statement to the court, from which it appeared that the prosecutor, as such, objected to any adjournment, and from the same statement it appearing also to the court, that the commanding general thought an adjournment to the first of December less prejudicial to the service than an adjournment for three months — the eourt did adjourn for the longer period, either for the greater accommodation of the prisoner, or out of respeet to the interests of the service: for neither reason is ex - pressed in the decision — nor does it appear that any objec - tion was made at the thiie by the prisoner*
Trial of Col. Thomas H. Cushing Before a General Court Martial: Which Sat at ... Thomas Humphrey Cushing, Wade Hampton 1812
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Politicians still balk at the term prisoner swap though political sources say it's certainly an option.
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Guatemala is a country where the term prisoner was unknown; it has not existed in 50 years.
Reportage on Fidel Castro's Official Visit to Uruguay Gives Speech at Town Hall 1995
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Heba has been living in a prison for the past three years; sadly enough the prisoner is her very own father who denied her the right to live freely and forced her into adopting his beliefs and his life style.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Heba Mohammed Najeeb – between a rock and a hard place 2009
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Ricks, wearing a green prison jumpsuit with the word "prisoner" written in white on the back and with a close haircut of his salt and pepper hair, stood before U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris as the charges were read aloud during a 30-minute hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
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In a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Tribby stood Friday before Judge Liam O'Grady wearing a green prison jumpsuit with the word "prisoner" written on the back and swore under oath with French manicured nails before her hearing began.
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Ricks, wearing a green prison jumpsuit with the word "prisoner" written in white on the back and with a close haircut of his salt and pepper hair, stood before U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris as the charges were read aloud during a 30-minute hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
Former teacher Ricks pleads guilty to child porn charges 2011
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The Libyans were insisting on what they call a prisoner transfer agreement between the two countries, which sounds like, you know, one of these vanilla agreements that two countries reach.
The Copper State 2010
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We have what we call a prisoner transport center in Albuquerque.
New Mexico Voters Side With Strong Approach To Illegal Immigration 2010
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The minute he says the word prisoner, Jacob jumps to his feet.
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
oroboros commented on the word prisoner
"The Prisoner" (aka: "Bowling for Number Six") ;^)
August 22, 2007