English Dictionary

hostage

/ˈhɒs.tɪd͡ʒ/

verb

(possibly nonstandard) To give (someone or something) as a hostage to (someone or something else).

The terrorists held the hostages captive for days.

意味（1）

(possibly nonstandard) To give (someone or something) as a hostage to (someone or something else).

[…] in voting the prolongation of the military budget on a war estimate for a span of three years, contemplates, it is said, a speedy reoccupation of the six departments of France which were hostaged to the Germans at the termination of the war.

意味（2）

(possibly nonstandard) To hold (someone or something) hostage, especially in a way that constrains or controls the person or thing held, or in order to exchange for something else.

Flexibility of hours is now hostaged to availability of work. Yet, despite these obvious drawbacks the appeal to nurses of freelancing seems to live on. The chief advantage of agency work is the lack of commitment or not being bound by contract ...