Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 1 compound words that contain prisoners. The most common are listed below. Open prisoners in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- political prisonersplural of political prisoner: A person imprisoned for their political views or political activism.
- prisoners of conscienceplural of prisoner of conscience: Anyone imprisoned because of their race, religion, or political views.
- prisoners of warplural of prisoner of war: A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
- take-no-prisonersruthlessly aggressive and uncompromising
- ghost prisonersplural of ghost prisoner: A prisoner not included in official prison records, and not reported to the Red Cross as a detainee.
- prisoners' barsA playground game in which two teams chase and capture any opponents running from their home area.
- prisoners at largeplural of prisoner at large: A member of the military who is being disciplined by being forbidden to leave the barracks or ship on which they are stationed.
- non-prisonersplural of non-prisoner: One who is not a prisoner.
- Spanish prisonersplural of Spanish prisoner: Somebody posing as a wealthy person of high status who has been imprisoned under a false identity; part of a confidence trick in which the mark is encouraged to give money to secure the release of the prisoner …
- star prisonersplural of star prisoner: A person in prison for the first time.
- taken no prisonerspast participle of take no prisoners: ruthlessly aggressive and uncompromising
- takes no prisonersthird-person singular simple present indicative of take no prisoners: ruthlessly aggressive and uncompromising
- taking no prisonerspresent participle and gerund of take no prisoners
- took no prisonerssimple past of take no prisoners
Compound words 1
- nonprisonersplural of nonprisoner: One who is not a prisoner.