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1. i. rehine, tutak. tutak, rehine. rehine. rehine. i. rehine, tutak. rehine. rehine, rehin, teminât. rehin:bazı akit anlaşmaların veya isteklerin yerine getirilmesi için teminat olarak alıkonulmuş personel. (1949 cenevre sözleşmesi'ne göre rehin almak yasaktır) . Rehine.
2. rehine, tutak, rehine.
3. tutsak. rehine.
4. rehine.
5. rehine.
6. tutak. rehine.

Etymology : Middle English, from Old French, from hoste
Pronunciation : 'häs-tij
Function : noun
Date : 13th century

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1. captive, pawn, someone held prisoner by a person or group in order to force another person or group to meet their demands. hostage\hos"tage\ , n. [oe. hostage, of. hostage, ostage, f. ôtage, ll. hostaticus, ostaticum, for hospitaticum, fr. l. hospes guest, host. the first meaning is, the state of a guest, hospitality; hence, the state of a hostage (treated as a guest); and both these meanings occur in old french. see: host a landlord.] a person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. your hostages i have, so have you mine; and we shall talk before we fight. he that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
2. A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.
3. 1. A hostage is someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands.
4. If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage. He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
5. If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price.