"hold hostage" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds hostage",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding hostage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held hostage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held hostage",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> hostage"
      },
      "expansion": "hold hostage (third-person singular simple present holds hostage, present participle holding hostage, simple past and past participle held hostage)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 11",
      "word": "take hostage"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To hold as hostage.",
        "To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_hostage-en-verb-bx9ADA1~",
      "links": [
        [
          "custody",
          "custody"
        ],
        [
          "security",
          "security"
        ],
        [
          "performance",
          "performance"
        ],
        [
          "treaty",
          "treaty"
        ],
        [
          "pledge",
          "pledge"
        ],
        [
          "demand",
          "demand"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "13 53 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates […]",
          "text": "Mr. President, when someone holds up this bill and holds it hostage, it is holding hostage the money that would go to aid victims of disaster.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Clyde Little, Wheeler's Wake Volume II: A Biographical Novel, volume 2, page 189",
          "text": "Plans for the resumption of her nursery school were put on hold, held hostage by the polio epidemic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold as hostage.",
        "To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation)."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_hostage-en-verb-0OQx8Eoc",
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "11 53 36",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pitää panttivankina"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "11 53 36",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "als Geisel halten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "11 53 36",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "in Geiselhaft halten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "11 53 36",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "gefangen halten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "11 53 36",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bratʹ v založniki",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "брать в заложники"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "11 53 36",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vzjatʹ v založniki",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "взять в заложники"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Brian R. Johnson, Brian Kingshott, Safe Overseas Travel: Maximizing Enjoyment by Minimizing Risk",
          "text": "That way, a taxidriver cannot hold the traveler's luggage hostage in the trunk for more money.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold in custody or use for any advantage."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_hostage-en-verb-rHQhVob0"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold hostage"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Translation table header lacks gloss"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds hostage",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding hostage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held hostage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held hostage",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> hostage"
      },
      "expansion": "hold hostage (third-person singular simple present holds hostage, present participle holding hostage, simple past and past participle held hostage)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "take hostage"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To hold as hostage.",
        "To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "custody",
          "custody"
        ],
        [
          "security",
          "security"
        ],
        [
          "performance",
          "performance"
        ],
        [
          "treaty",
          "treaty"
        ],
        [
          "pledge",
          "pledge"
        ],
        [
          "demand",
          "demand"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates […]",
          "text": "Mr. President, when someone holds up this bill and holds it hostage, it is holding hostage the money that would go to aid victims of disaster.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Clyde Little, Wheeler's Wake Volume II: A Biographical Novel, volume 2, page 189",
          "text": "Plans for the resumption of her nursery school were put on hold, held hostage by the polio epidemic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold as hostage.",
        "To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Brian R. Johnson, Brian Kingshott, Safe Overseas Travel: Maximizing Enjoyment by Minimizing Risk",
          "text": "That way, a taxidriver cannot hold the traveler's luggage hostage in the trunk for more money.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold in custody or use for any advantage."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "pitää panttivankina"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "als Geisel halten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "in Geiselhaft halten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "gefangen halten"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bratʹ v založniki",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "брать в заложники"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vzjatʹ v založniki",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "взять в заложники"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold hostage"
}