Contract and Hostage

Contract

Contract noun - A formal agreement to fulfill an obligation.

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Hostage and contract are semantically related. in collateral topic. In some cases you can use "Hostage" instead a noun "Contract".

Hostage noun - A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.

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Contract and hostage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contract" instead a noun "Hostage".

old	old contract	old hostage
particular	particular contract	particular hostage
original	original contract	original hostage
single	single contract	single hostage
Other adjectives: entire, large, bad, important, new, final, next, last, previous.

Oddly, it's not Bond who does this, even though Bond had taken him as hostage, but Carver, since he had outlived his contract.

Source: Film / Tomorrow Never Dies
Jesse Dimmick, who was running from a murder charge in Colorado, sued a couple he took hostage in Kansas for breach of contract after they broke their promise to hide him from the police.

Source: Frivolous Lawsuit
Having been bound to a contract not to perform an actual murder, his associate barges into the hostage situation with a machine gun.

Source: Crazy Prepared / Anime and Manga

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