Antonyms for hostage
ˈhɒs tɪdʒhostage

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1. hostage

   Antonyms:
   dictator, conqueror

   Synonyms:
   sponsor, bail, surety

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1. • Prisoner

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1. hostage, suretynoun

   a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

   Synonyms:
   security, warrantor, warranter, guarantor, surety

How to use hostage in a sentence?

1. Prime Minister Abbott:

   It is profoundly shocking that innocent people should be held hostage by an armed person claiming political motivation.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens, Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams, and I will continue to pursue our mission to secure the release of the CITGO-6, and we will do our utmost to achieve that goal.

3. Jason Straziuso:

   (Given) our long historical independent neutral stance, it's common for us to be the middle man in hostage releases, we provide transportation from Boko Haram to the Nigerian government.

4. Doug Ford:

   To those who are still there, to those of you who are there with the sole objective of causing disruption and chaos, there'll be serious consequences for this lawless activity, we will continue to raise the consequences against those who are holding millions of jobs and people hostage.

5. Costa Junior:

   There is a single party in power, a one-party regime, a big cancer this country needs to get rid of, a cancer that feeds on everything to continue to govern, today we can see everywhere that everyone is tired of this party, this single party that holds Angola hostage to its interests, this single party that does not allow Angola to be a democracy.

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