Usually means: Audience confined, must listen/watch.
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  1. captive audience: Merriam-Webster
  2. captive audience: Collins English Dictionary
  3. captive audience: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. captive audience: Wiktionary
  5. Captive Audience, Captive audience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. captive audience: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (captive audience)

▸ noun:  A person or people who are unable to leave a place or situation and are thus forced to listen to or watch something.

Similar:
cageful, capturability, accipient, impressionable, hypnotic, capacity, hypnotizable, compulsory, persuadable, influencee, more...

Opposite:
voluntary audience, free audience

Phrases:
Captive audience meeting, a captive audience, more...

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Similar:
cageful, capturability, accipient, impressionable, hypnotic, capacity, hypnotizable, compulsory, persuadable, influencee, more...

Opposite:
voluntary audience, free audience

Phrases:
Captive audience meeting, a captive audience, more...



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