hostage
/ˈhɒstɪdʒ/noun
उच्चारण हॉस्टिज
बंधक
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as one-word substitution
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a person who is captured and held prisoner by a person or group, and who may be injured or killed if people do not do what the person or group is asking
बंधक
- The terrorists held the passengers hostage.
- The gang held the bank manager hostage for six hours before the police arrived.
- The robbers took a cashier hostage and demanded a getaway car.
+ 2 more examples
- Two journalists were held hostage for several weeks before their release.
- Negotiators worked through the night to free the hostages unharmed.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 5
take / hold sb hostage
Use take for the act of seizing and hold for keeping the person; hostage has no article here.
पकड़ने के लिए take और रखने के लिए hold का प्रयोग होता है; यहाँ hostage के साथ article नहीं आता।
- The gunmen took three guards hostage.
- The robbers held the bank staff hostage for six hours.
a hostage (countable noun)
Hostage is a countable noun for the person who is held.
'Hostage' उस व्यक्ति के लिए गिनने योग्य noun है जिसे बंधक बनाया गया हो।
- All the hostages were released safely.
- He was a hostage for a week.
hostage to sth
Hostage to means being controlled or limited by something you cannot avoid.
'Hostage to' का अर्थ किसी ऐसी चीज़ के नियंत्रण में होना है जिससे बचा न जा सके।
- The government is hostage to its allies.
hostage negotiations / crisis
Hostage works as a noun modifier before nouns like crisis and situation.
'Hostage' crisis और situation जैसे nouns से पहले modifier के रूप में आता है।
- The police began hostage negotiations at once.
release / free / rescue a hostage
Verbs of freeing take hostage directly as the object.
मुक्त करने वाले verbs के साथ hostage सीधे object के रूप में आता है।
- Commandos rescued the hostages from the building.
+Collocations 5
verb + hostage
takeholdreleasefreerescue
- The group released two hostages after the talks.
hostage + noun
crisissituationtakernegotiatordrama
- The hostage crisis ended after two days.
adjective + hostage
innocentcivilianforeigncapturedfreed
- Several foreign hostages were freed.
hostage + preposition
to fortuneto the weatherof the gangin the hands of
- The match is hostage to the weather.
number + hostages
dozens ofseveralalla few
- Dozens of hostages were held in the hall.
“More examples 5
- The terrorists threatened to kill the hostages if their demands were refused.
आतंकवादियों ने माँगें न मानने पर बंधकों को मार देने की धमकी दी।
- The negotiator spent the night talking to the hostage taker.
वार्ताकार ने पूरी रात बंधक बनाने वाले से बात की।
- The elderly couple were held hostage in their own home.
बुज़ुर्ग दंपति को उनके अपने घर में बंधक बनाकर रखा गया।
- The airline is hostage to rising fuel prices.
विमान कंपनी बढ़ती ईंधन-क़ीमतों की मजबूरी में बँधी है।
- After the rescue, the hostages thanked the police.
बचाव के बाद बंधकों ने पुलिस को धन्यवाद दिया।
!Common mistakes 3
✗ The gang took her as a hostage.
✓ The gang took her hostage.
In the phrase take sb hostage, hostage has no article.
'Take sb hostage' वाक्यांश में hostage के साथ article नहीं आता।
✗ The gunmen holded the pilot hostage for two days.
✓ The gunmen held the pilot hostage for two days.
The past tense of hold is held.
Hold का past रूप held है।
✗ The robbers made the cashier hostage.
✓ The robbers took the cashier hostage.
The idiom is take sb hostage; make is not used.
मुहावरा 'take sb hostage' है; इसमें 'make' का प्रयोग नहीं होता।
≠Thesaurus: which synonym when
All three mean a person held by force, but they differ in purpose and length.
तीनों का अर्थ बलपूर्वक रखा गया व्यक्ति है, पर उद्देश्य और अवधि में अंतर है।
Held so that others will do what the captor demands.
इसलिए रखा जाता है कि दूसरे अपहरणकर्ता की माँग मानें।
- The hostages were freed after the ransom.
Held by law or by an enemy, often for a long time.
क़ानून या शत्रु द्वारा, प्रायः लंबे समय के लिए रखा गया।
- The prisoner was moved to a new jail.
Anyone taken and kept by force, not necessarily for a demand.
बलपूर्वक पकड़कर रखा गया कोई भी व्यक्ति, ज़रूरी नहीं कि किसी माँग के लिए।
- The captive tiger was released into the forest.
¶Idioms 2
take/hold sb hostage
to capture or keep somebody as a hostage
(किसी को) बंधक बनाना
- The robbers took the bank manager hostage.
a hostage to fortune
an action or a promise that may cause problems in the future
भविष्य की मुसीबत का कारण
- The promise of free electricity was a hostage to fortune.
AaSpelling
hos·tage
With -tage (not 'hostege').
अंत में -tage ('hostege' गलत है)।
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
Take or hold sb hostage, a hostage to fortune.
Idioms: take या hold sb hostage (किसी को बंधक बना लेना), a hostage to fortune (ऐसा काम या वादा जो भविष्य में परेशानी का कारण बन सकता है)।
✓In the exam
One-word substitution
Money demanded for releasing a hostage is a ransom; taking control of a plane by force hijacking; taking a person by force kidnapping or abduction.
बंधक छोड़ने के लिए माँगा गया धन ransom (फिरौती); बल से विमान पर कब्ज़ा hijacking; बल से किसी को ले जाना kidnapping या abduction।
General knowledge
Operation Thunderbolt (Entebbe, 1976) and the Kandahar hijacking (IC 814, 1999) involved hostages.
Operation Thunderbolt (एंटेबे, 1976) और कंधार अपहरण (IC 814, 1999) में बंधक शामिल थे।