Portugiesisch - Türkisch
Definition von refém im Portugiesisch Türkisch wörterbuch
- rehine olmak
- rehin al
- rehin
- rehine
- rehin almak
Portugiesisch - Englisch
Definition von refém im Portugiesisch Englisch wörterbuch
- hostage
Mary was taken hostage.
-Mary foi tomada refém.
- A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released
- {n} a pledge for performance of conditions
- A hostage is someone who has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people do not do what that person or organization demands
- If you say you are hostage to something, you mean that your freedom to take action is restricted by things that you cannot control. With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price
- {i} captive, pawn, someone held prisoner by a person or group in order to force another person or group to meet their demands
- a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
- If someone is taken hostage or is held hostage, they are captured and kept as a hostage. He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist