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Definition of: prisoner
(priz′ən·ər, -nər) noun
1. One who is confined in a prison or whose liberty is forcibly restrained; one held in custody; a captive; specifically, in law, a person confined in a prison by virtue of an order of arrest or of a legal committal.
2. A person confined to a place or position through some cause over which he has not control: A sick man is a prisoner to his bed. [<OF prisonier]
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