history: One time when I was depositing money at the bank, some robbers came in and held us at gun point. It is the scariest situation of my life.
knowledge: A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war.
response: Were you held as a hostage, as in a person to the hostile robbers as a form of security to get an agreement carried out?
history: One time when I was depositing money at the bank, some robbers came in and held us at gun point. It is the scariest situation of my life.
Were you held as a hostage, as in a person to the hostile robbers as a form of security to get an agreement carried out?
No, I don't think that applies but I was definitely a hostage in that situation!
knowledge: However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.
response: Well, you know that criminals abduct others in order to compel another person to do what they want, with the hostage under threat.
history: One time when I was depositing money at the bank, some robbers came in and held us at gun point. It is the scariest situation of my life.
Were you held as a hostage, as in a person to the hostile robbers as a form of security to get an agreement carried out?
No, I don't think that applies but I was definitely a hostage in that situation!
Well, you know that criminals abduct others in order to compel another person to do what they want, with the hostage under threat.
They do, I just didn't want to be what they abducted. It was not fun at all.
knowledge: The English word ''hostage'' derives from French ''ostage'', modern ''otage'', from Late Latin ''obsidaticum'' (Medieval Latin ''ostaticum, ostagium''), the state of being an ''obses'' (plural ''obsides''), ''hostage'', from Latin ''obsideō'' (''I haunt / frequent / blockade / besiege''), but an etymological connection was later supposed with Latin ''hostis'' (''stranger,'' later ''enemy'').
response: By the way, the word hostage comes from the French word, ostage, and from others like Late Latin "obsidaticum".
history: One time when I was depositing money at the bank, some robbers came in and held us at gun point. It is the scariest situation of my life.
Were you held as a hostage, as in a person to the hostile robbers as a form of security to get an agreement carried out?
No, I don't think that applies but I was definitely a hostage in that situation!
Well, you know that criminals abduct others in order to compel another person to do what they want, with the hostage under threat.
They do, I just didn't want to be what they abducted. It was not fun at all.
By the way, the word hostage comes from the French word, ostage, and from others like Late Latin "obsidaticum".
Wow, but I don't really care for the word history, remembering that makes me feel rather uncomfortable. I bet old times had hostages too.
knowledge: This long history of political and military use indicates that political authorities or generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostages in the custody of the other side, as guarantee of good faith in the observance of obligations.
response: Indeed, there happens to be a long history of it being used in politics and the military. Politicians or generals would hand over one or, typically, more hostages to the other side as a way of good faith.
history: One time when I was depositing money at the bank, some robbers came in and held us at gun point. It is the scariest situation of my life.
Were you held as a hostage, as in a person to the hostile robbers as a form of security to get an agreement carried out?
No, I don't think that applies but I was definitely a hostage in that situation!
Well, you know that criminals abduct others in order to compel another person to do what they want, with the hostage under threat.
They do, I just didn't want to be what they abducted. It was not fun at all.
By the way, the word hostage comes from the French word, ostage, and from others like Late Latin "obsidaticum".
Wow, but I don't really care for the word history, remembering that makes me feel rather uncomfortable. I bet old times had hostages too.
Indeed, there happens to be a long history of it being used in politics and the military. Politicians or generals would hand over one or, typically, more hostages to the other side as a way of good faith.
I don't think these hostages were ready to do anything in good faith. They wanted money and nothing else.
knowledge: A person who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host.
response: They would be also known as hostage-takers as they seized you and others as hostages.