Hostage and Slave

Hostage

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

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Slave and hostage are semantically related In some cases you can use "Slave" instead a noun "Hostage".

Slave noun - A person who is considered the property of another person.

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Hostage and slave are semantically related in prisoner topic. Sometimes you can use "Hostage" instead a noun "Slave".

Nearby Words: slavish, slaver, slavery, slaved, slaving

fellow	fellow hostage	fellow slave
old	old hostage	old slave
female	female hostage	female slave
perfect	perfect hostage	perfect slave
Other adjectives: original, single, poor, male, little, potential, willing, new, former, royal, escaped, glorified, elderly, favorite, roman.

In Dante's Cove, Ambrosius holds Toby hostage to force Kevin to become his sex slave.

Source: Sex Slave
Many complaints have been hurled at the show in Season 5 for how Sansa's been treated character wise since she's essentially taken over Jayne Poole's role as Ramsey Snows wife/hostage/sex slave.

Source: Character Derailment / Live-Action TV
Subverted, as one slave gets captured and used as a hostage, forcing the Searchers to surrender.

Source: Anime / Monster Rancher

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