Captive - definition of captive by The Free Dictionary 2 Held in bondage; enslaved 3 Kept under restraint or control; confined: captive birds 4 Enraptured, as by beauty; captivated 5 Restrained by circumstances that prevent free choice: a captive audience; a captive market 6 Serving a single company exclusively: a captive insurer
CAPTIVE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal A captive is someone who is captive He described the difficulties of surviving for four months as a captive
captive adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of captive adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary kept as a prisoner or in a space that you cannot get out of; unable to escape They were taken captive by masked gunmen She was held captive in a castle Questions about grammar and vocabulary?
captive - WordReference. com Dictionary of English of or pertaining to a captive managed as an affiliate or subsidiary of a corporation and operated almost exclusively for the use or needs of the parent corporation rather than independently for the general public: a captive shop; a captive mine
captive - Wiktionary, the free dictionary captive (third-person singular simple present captives, present participle captiving, simple past and past participle captived) (transitive, archaic) To capture; to take captive