captive

a captive audience; a captive market.

a captive power plant.

advertisements at the cinema reach a captive audience.

The captive was whooped and jeered.

The rock star had a captive audience.

The captives are wearing chains.

Television provides a captive audience for advertisers.

The three brothers were held captive for three months.

a campaign to save the condor by captive breeding

the farm was used to hold prisoners of war captive .

deliver a captive from slavery.See Synonyms at save 1

guaranteed to free the captives; guarantees freedom of speech.

Lying in my hospital bed, I was a captive audience to these uninteresting old stories.

After so many months, the captives were beyond hope of escape and of ever seeing their families again.

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

The company has already raised captive-bred yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) and mulloway (Argyrosomus hololepidotus), which are now in significant commercial production.

Suni - A member of the monkey-like Sem barbarian tribe. She was being held captive by the Black Count and was liberated by Rinda, Guin, and Remus.

So there has to be a captive?

They said both sides should release the remaining captives.

Yesterday, the Houthis also freed two captive Americans.

Could it be that she was to remain a captive still?

Caesar celebrated his victories by parading his captives through the streets of Rome.

Mr Muhaxheri has made one video in which he beheads an Iraqi captive.

Through baptism the Catholic Church stripped the captives of their African identity.

Dawn arrives, but the flower remains unchanged, holding its captives through the day.

About 70 captives were freed. Here's Gary O'Donoghue.

Professor Snape grew worried that you still believed Sirius to be a captive of Lord Voldemort's.