Exact Match:
- hostage
- a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
Synonyms:
- bail,
- bond,
- captive,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- gage,
- guaranty,
- handsel,
- hock,
- mainprise,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- prisoner,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- security,
- surety,
- token,
- token payment,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium
Related Words:
- escrow
collapse - a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition related words >
- bail,
- bond,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- gage,
- handsel,
- hock,
- hostage,
- mainprise,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- surety,
- token payment,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium
- token payment
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- a small payment made in acknowledgement of an obligation related words >
- bail,
- bond,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- gage,
- handsel,
- hock,
- hostage,
- mainprise,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- surety,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium
- bail
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- the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial); "he is out on bail"
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; "the judge set bail at $10,000"; "a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman"
- remove (water) from a vessel with a container
- empty (a vessel) by bailing
- secure the release of (someone) by providing security
- deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period
- release after a security has been paid related words >
- arraignment,
- bond,
- bucket,
- charge,
- cup,
- decant,
- dip,
- dish,
- dish out,
- dish up,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- fork,
- gage,
- guaranty,
- handsel,
- hock,
- hostage,
- impeachment,
- indictment,
- information,
- lade,
- ladle,
- mainprise,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- pour,
- presentment,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- scoop,
- security,
- shovel,
- spade,
- spoon,
- surety,
- token payment,
- true bill,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- warranty
- hock
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- tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle
- disable by cutting the hock related words >
- ankle,
- bail,
- bayonet legs,
- bond,
- bottomry,
- bowlegs,
- calf,
- cnemis,
- deposit,
- drumstick,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- foreleg,
- gage,
- gamb,
- gambrel,
- gigot,
- go bail,
- ham,
- handsel,
- hind leg,
- hostage,
- hypothecate,
- impignorate,
- jamb,
- knee,
- leg,
- limb,
- mainprise,
- mortgage,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- podite,
- popliteal space,
- post,
- put in hock,
- put in pawn,
- put up,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- scissor-legs,
- shank,
- shin,
- spout,
- stake,
- stems,
- stumps,
- surety,
- tarsus,
- token payment,
- trotters,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium
- recognizance
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- (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited related words >
- agreement,
- arrangement,
- bail,
- bond,
- commitment,
- contract,
- contract by deed,
- contract of record,
- contract quasi,
- covenant of indemnity,
- debenture,
- debenture bond,
- deed,
- deed of trust,
- deed poll,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- engagement,
- escrow,
- formal contract,
- gage,
- group policy,
- handsel,
- hock,
- hostage,
- implied contract,
- indent,
- indenture,
- insurance policy,
- mainprise,
- mortgage deed,
- obligation,
- parol contract,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- policy,
- preengagement,
- promissory note,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- special contract,
- specialty,
- specialty contract,
- surety,
- title deed,
- token payment,
- understanding,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- verbal agreement
- annex,
- attach,
- bail,
- bond,
- collectivize,
- commandeer,
- communalize,
- communize,
- confiscate,
- distrain,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- expropriate,
- gage,
- garnish,
- get back,
- handsel,
- hock,
- hostage,
- impound,
- impress,
- levy,
- mainprise,
- nationalize,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- press,
- ransom,
- recapture,
- reclaim,
- reclaiming,
- reclamation,
- recognizance,
- recoup,
- recoupment,
- recover,
- recovery,
- recuperate,
- recuperation,
- redeem,
- redemption,
- regain,
- regainment,
- renovate,
- reoccupation,
- reoccupy,
- replevy,
- repossess,
- repossession,
- restoration,
- restore,
- resume,
- resumption,
- retake,
- retaking,
- retrieval,
- retrieve,
- revindicate,
- revindication,
- revival,
- revive,
- salvage,
- sequester,
- sequestrate,
- socialize,
- surety,
- take back,
- token payment,
- trover,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium
- captive
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- an animal that is confined
- a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion
- giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought"
- in captivity related words >
- POW,
- bond,
- bondmaid,
- bondman,
- bondslave,
- bondsman,
- bondswoman,
- caged,
- cageling,
- catch,
- chain gang,
- chattel,
- chattel slave,
- churl,
- con,
- concubine,
- confined,
- conquest,
- convict,
- coquette,
- date,
- debt slave,
- detainee,
- detenu,
- disenfranchised,
- enslaved,
- enthralled,
- ex-convict,
- flirt,
- galley slave,
- gaolbird,
- helot,
- homager,
- honey,
- hostage,
- imprisoned,
- in bondage,
- in bonds,
- in captivity,
- in chains,
- in slavery,
- in subjection,
- incarcerated,
- internee,
- jailbird,
- liege,
- liege man,
- liege subject,
- lifer,
- locked up,
- odalisque,
- oppressed,
- parolee,
- peon,
- political prisoner,
- prisoner,
- prisoner of war,
- serf,
- servant,
- slave,
- steady,
- stir bird,
- subject,
- subjected,
- subjugated,
- suppressed,
- sweet patootie,
- sweetheart,
- sweetie,
- theow,
- thrall,
- ticket-of-leave man,
- ticket-of-leaver,
- trusty,
- under the heel,
- under the lash,
- unfree,
- vamp,
- vampire,
- vassal,
- villein
- DET,
- DMT,
- LSD,
- Mary Jane,
- STP,
- THC,
- acid,
- antidepressant,
- ataractic,
- bail,
- battle cry,
- bid to combat,
- bond,
- challenge,
- dare,
- defi,
- defy,
- diethyltryptamine,
- dimethyltryptamine,
- double dare,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- gage of battle,
- ganja,
- gauntlet,
- glove,
- grass,
- hallucinogen,
- handsel,
- hash,
- hashish,
- hay,
- hemp,
- hock,
- hostage,
- joint,
- kava,
- mainprise,
- marijuana,
- mescal,
- mescal bean,
- mescal button,
- mescaline,
- mind-altering drug,
- mind-blowing drug,
- mind-expanding drug,
- morning glory seeds,
- pawn,
- peyote,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- pot,
- psilocin,
- psilocybin,
- psychedelic,
- psychic energizer,
- psychoactive drug,
- psychochemical,
- psychotomimetic,
- rebel yell,
- recognizance,
- reefer,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- roach,
- stick,
- surety,
- tea,
- token payment,
- tranquilizer,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- weed
- surety
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- something clearly established related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- acceptation,
- acception,
- acquiescence,
- angel,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- backer,
- bail,
- bailsman,
- belief,
- bond,
- bondsman,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- clear sailing,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- courage,
- credence,
- credit,
- credulity,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- dependence,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- faith,
- gage,
- godfather,
- godparent,
- guarantee,
- guarantor,
- guaranty,
- handsel,
- harmlessness,
- hock,
- hope,
- hostage,
- hubris,
- immunity,
- indemnity,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- insurance,
- insurer,
- invulnerability,
- mainpernor,
- mainprise,
- mortgagor,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- patron,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- pride,
- probatum,
- protection,
- proved fact,
- reception,
- recognizance,
- reliance,
- reliance on,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- risklessness,
- safeguard,
- safeness,
- safety,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- settled belief,
- sponsor,
- stock,
- stocks and bonds,
- store,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- suspension of disbelief,
- tie,
- token payment,
- trust,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- undertaking,
- underwriter,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- warrant,
- warrantor,
- warranty
- undertaking
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- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
- the trade of a funeral director related words >
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- action,
- activities,
- activity,
- adventure,
- affair,
- affairs,
- agreement,
- approach,
- assay,
- assurance,
- attempt,
- bag,
- bail,
- bid,
- blow,
- bond,
- business,
- commerce,
- commitment,
- concern,
- concernment,
- contract,
- coup,
- crack,
- dealings,
- deed,
- doing,
- doings,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- effort,
- employ,
- employment,
- endeavor,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- escrow,
- essay,
- experiment,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- fling,
- function,
- gage,
- gambit,
- gest,
- go,
- guarantee,
- guaranty,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handsel,
- hassle,
- hock,
- hostage,
- interest,
- job,
- labor,
- lick,
- lookout,
- mainprise,
- maneuver,
- matter,
- measure,
- move,
- obligation,
- occupation,
- offer,
- operation,
- overt act,
- passage,
- pawn,
- performance,
- performing,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- preengagement,
- proceeding,
- production,
- project,
- promise,
- realization,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- res gestae,
- service,
- shot,
- stab,
- step,
- striving,
- stroke,
- strong bid,
- struggle,
- stunt,
- surety,
- task,
- tentative,
- thing,
- thing done,
- token payment,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trial,
- trial and error,
- try,
- turn,
- understanding,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- venture,
- verbal agreement,
- vow,
- warranty,
- whack,
- work,
- works
- pawn
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- borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
- (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
- an article deposited as security
- leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" related words >
- Charlie McCarthy,
- agent,
- ancilla,
- appliance,
- assurance,
- bail,
- bishop,
- bond,
- borrow,
- bottomry,
- castle,
- chance,
- chessman,
- cog,
- collateral,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- contrivance,
- creature,
- deposit,
- device,
- dip,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- float a loan,
- flunky,
- follower,
- gage,
- gamble,
- get a loan,
- get on credit,
- go bail,
- go-between,
- guarantee,
- guaranty,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- handsel,
- hazard,
- hit one for,
- hit up,
- hock,
- hoi polloi,
- hostage,
- hypothecate,
- impignorate,
- implement,
- inferior,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- jeopardize,
- junior,
- king,
- knight,
- lever,
- lightweight,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- mainprise,
- man,
- masses,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- midwife,
- minion,
- mortgage,
- negotiate a loan,
- organ,
- piece,
- pignus,
- plaything,
- pledge,
- plight,
- pop,
- post,
- puppet,
- put in hock,
- put in pawn,
- put up,
- queen,
- raise money,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- risk,
- rook,
- run into debt,
- second fiddle,
- secondary,
- security,
- servant,
- slave,
- spout,
- stake,
- stooge,
- subaltern,
- subordinate,
- surety,
- third stringer,
- token,
- token payment,
- tool,
- touch,
- toy,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- undertaking,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- vehicle,
- venture,
- warrant,
- yes-man
- pledge
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- a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
- someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group
- a deposit of personal property as security for a debt; "his saxophone was in pledge"
- promise solemnly and formally; "I pledge that will honor my wife"
- bind or secure by a pledge; "I was pledged to silence"
- give as a guarantee; "I pledge my honor"
- pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station" related words >
- Bible oath,
- Greek,
- accounts payable,
- accounts receivable,
- affiliate,
- agree,
- amount due,
- associate,
- assurance,
- assure,
- avouch,
- avouchment,
- avow,
- bad debts,
- bail,
- belonger,
- bib,
- bill,
- bills,
- bind,
- bond,
- booze,
- borrowing,
- bottomry,
- brother,
- card-carrier,
- card-carrying member,
- cardholder,
- charges,
- charter member,
- cheer,
- chip in,
- chits,
- clubber,
- clubman,
- clubwoman,
- collateral,
- commit,
- committeeman,
- comrade,
- confide,
- consign,
- contract,
- contribute,
- contribute to,
- conventioneer,
- conventioner,
- conventionist,
- countersign,
- covenant,
- debt,
- deposit,
- dip,
- donate to,
- drain the cup,
- drink,
- drink in,
- drink off,
- drink to,
- drink up,
- due,
- dues,
- dues-paying member,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- engage,
- enlistee,
- enrollee,
- entrust,
- escrow,
- extrajudicial oath,
- faith,
- fellow,
- financial commitment,
- floating debt,
- fraternity man,
- funded debt,
- gage,
- gift,
- gift with,
- give to,
- go bail,
- guarantee,
- guaranty,
- guildsman,
- guzzle,
- handsel,
- health,
- hock,
- honorary member,
- hostage,
- hypothecate,
- imbibe,
- impignorate,
- indebtedness,
- indebtment,
- initiate,
- insider,
- ironclad oath,
- joiner,
- judicial oath,
- kick in,
- liability,
- life member,
- loyalty oath,
- mainprise,
- make a promise,
- make imperative,
- make incumbent,
- maturity,
- member,
- mortgage,
- national debt,
- oath,
- oath of allegiance,
- oath of office,
- obligate,
- obligation,
- oblige,
- official oath,
- one of us,
- outstanding debt,
- parole,
- pass,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- plight,
- pop,
- post,
- promise,
- public debt,
- pull,
- put in hock,
- put in pawn,
- put up,
- quaff,
- recognizance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- require,
- saddle with,
- score,
- security,
- sip,
- sister,
- socius,
- solemn declaration,
- solemn oath,
- sorority girl,
- sorority woman,
- spout,
- stake,
- subscribe,
- suck,
- suck in,
- suckle,
- sup,
- surety,
- swear,
- sweeten the kitty,
- swig,
- swill,
- test oath,
- tie,
- tipple,
- toast,
- token,
- token payment,
- toss down,
- toss off,
- tribute,
- troth,
- uncollectibles,
- undertake,
- undertaking,
- underwrite,
- unfulfilled pledge,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- vouch,
- vouchsafe,
- vow,
- warrant,
- warranty,
- wash down,
- word,
- word of honor
- earnest
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- something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
- characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social message" related words >
- abandoned,
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- advertent,
- afire,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- ardent,
- assiduous,
- attention,
- attentive,
- aware,
- awe-inspiring,
- bail,
- binder,
- bond,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- burning,
- busy,
- careful,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- clearance,
- committed,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- debt service,
- decided,
- decisive,
- decorous,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- demure,
- deposit,
- determined,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- disbursal,
- discharge,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- eager,
- earnest money,
- enthusiasm,
- enthusiastic,
- escrow,
- faithful,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fiery,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- firm,
- flaming,
- formal,
- formidable,
- frowning,
- gage,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- guarantee,
- handsel,
- hard-working,
- hearty,
- heated,
- heavy,
- heedful,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- hock,
- hostage,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- impassioned,
- imposing,
- in earnest,
- industrious,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- intentive,
- intentness,
- interest,
- interest payment,
- keen,
- liquidation,
- long-faced,
- loyal,
- mainprise,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- nice,
- niggling,
- no-nonsense,
- observant,
- observing,
- obstinate,
- on fire,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- passionate,
- pawn,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- perfervid,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- portentous,
- prepayment,
- pressing,
- purposeful,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- recognizance,
- red-hot,
- regardful,
- regular payments,
- relentless,
- remittance,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- retirement,
- satisfaction,
- security,
- sedate,
- sedulous,
- serious,
- seriousness,
- settlement,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- sinking-fund payment,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- somber,
- spirited,
- spot cash,
- staid,
- steady,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- surety,
- tenacious,
- thoughtful,
- token,
- token payment,
- undertaking,
- unsmiling,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- vehement,
- warm,
- warmth,
- warrant,
- watchful,
- weekly payments,
- weighty,
- white-hot,
- wholehearted,
- zeal,
- zealous
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