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con\u2027vict <\/strong>2<\/strong> \/ \u02c8k\u0252nv\u026akt $ \u02c8k\u0251\u02d0n- \/ noun<\/em> [ countable ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

someone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>an escaped convict<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THESAURUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

prisoner<\/strong> someone who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their trial : Prisoners may be locked in their cells for twenty-two hours a day. <\/em>| a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

convict <\/strong>especially written<\/em> someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison. Convict<\/strong> is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions, or in the phrase an escaped convict <\/strong>: The convicts were sent from England to Australia. <\/em>| Police were hunting for an escaped convict. <\/em>| Low-risk convicts help to fight forest fires and clean up public lands.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

inmate<\/strong> someone who is kept in a prison or a mental hospital : Some inmates are allowed to have special privileges. <\/em>| He was described by a fellow inmate as a quiet man.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

captive <\/strong>especially literary<\/em> someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting. Captive<\/strong> is a rather formal word which is used especially in literature : Their objective was to disarm the enemy and release the captives. <\/em>| She was held captive<\/em><\/strong> (= kept as a prisoner ) in the jungle for over three years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

prisoner of war<\/strong> a soldier, member of the navy etc who is caught by the enemy during a war and kept in the enemy\u2019s country : My grandad was a prisoner of war in Germany. <\/em>| They agreed to release two Iranian prisoners of war.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

hostage<\/strong> someone who is kept somewhere as a prisoner, in order to force people to agree to do something, for example in order to get money or to achive a political aim : Diplomats are continuing their efforts to secure the release of the hostages. <\/em>| The US hostages were held in Tehran for over a year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

detainee\/internee<\/strong> someone who is kept in a prison, usually because of their political views and often without a trial : In some cases, political detainees have been beaten or mistreated. <\/em>| 23,531 people passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962, including 14,647 political internees. <\/em>| the detainees at Guantanamo Bay<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

con\u2027vict 2 \/ \u02c8k\u0252nv\u026akt $ \u02c8k\u0251\u02d0n- \/ noun [ countable ] someone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison : an escaped convict THESAURUS prisoner someone who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their trial : Prisoners …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,13],"tags":[18,17,8],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-ielts","category-vocabulary","tag-mindset-for-ielts-level2","tag-page70","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}