7. Prisoner | captive | hostage collocations

to take sb prisoner / captive / hostage взять / захватить в плен / в заложники, задержать: George fought in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans. | The captain was taken prisoner by enemy soldiers. | Armed gunmen broke into the church and took the priest captive. | Six visiting businessmen were taken hostage by rebel groups. | He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.

to take / capture / seize a prisoner / captive / hostage взять / захватить заложника: The army advanced, taking 200,000 prisoners. | They often took captives during their raids, and sometimes raised them in the tribe. | The heavily armed gunmen initially took 24 hostages, but later released 14. | The terrorists have seized 20 hostages and are threatening to kill one a day unless their demands are met.

to hold / keep sb prisoner / captive / hostage | to hold / keep sb as a prisoner / captive / hostage держать в плену; держать в заложниках: The guerrillas kept her prisoner for three months. | The pilot was held kept prisoner by the gunmen for many hours. | The terrorists were holding several British diplomats captive. | The group are holding two western tourists hostage. | A British journalist was held hostage for over four years.

to keep / hold prisoners / captives / hostages держать пленных / заложников

to release / free a prisoner / captive / hostage освободить пленного / задержанного / заложника: The king also released any prisoner that Leonard went to visit. | She had decided not to free the prisoners, so now she had to see what happened to the passengers. | The rebels promise to release their captives unharmed if their demands are met. | The gunmen released most hostages and headed for Chechnya with the rest after receiving a promise of safe passage. | The terrorists have at last agreed to free the hostages.

8. captivity [uncountable] a situation in which a person is being kept as a prisoner плен; пленение, захват; неволя: At least a quarter of the prisoners died in captivity. | In his book, he describes what life was like during his long captivity. | Those who were not dead marched away into captivity. | An American missionary was released today after more than two months of captivity.

to hold / keep sb in captivity держать в плену / неволе: Folkes says that he was held in captivity for over a year.

to release sb from captivity освободить из плена / неволи: The hostages were released from captivity.

to escape from captivity бежать из плена / неволи: Both escaped from captivity but only George survived.

9. captor [countable] someone who is keeping another person prisoner взявший / захвативший в плен: He managed to escape from his captors. | The treatment of the prisoners by their captors is atrocious and breaks all international laws. | Hostages are said to develop similarly complex attachments to their captors. | One of their captors filmed the shootings with a video camera.

10. prison camp | prisoner-of-war camp [countable] a special prison in which prisoners of war are kept лагерь военнопленных: He was captured by enemy forces and sent to a prison camp for the rest of the war. | He was shot down over Denmark and spent three years in a prison camp. | McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam.

11. concentration camp [countable] a prison where political prisoners and other people who are not soldiers are kept and treated cruelly, especially during a war концентрационный лагерь: In 1944 the woman was betrayed and imprisoned in a concentration camp. | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner.