Usually means: Individuals incarcerated for committing crimes.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word prisoners:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. prisoners: Merriam-Webster
  2. prisoners: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prisoners: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prisoner's, Prisoners, prisoner's, prisoners, prisoners: Wordnik
  5. prisoners: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prisoners: Wiktionary
  7. prisoners: Dictionary.com
  8. prisoners: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Prisoners (Gotham), Prisoners (album), Prisoners (film), Prisoners, The Prisoners (The Walking Dead), The Prisoners: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Prisoners: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. prisoners: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prisoners: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Prisoners: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prisoners: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Prisoners)

▸ noun:  a 1982 American-New Zealand drama film directed by Peter Werner and starring Tatum O'Neal, Colin Friels and David Hemmings.
▸ noun:  the third studio album by Canadian metal band the Agonist.
▸ noun:  a 2013 American thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Aaron Guzikowski.
▸ noun:  "Prisoners" is the sixteenth episode of the second season, and 38th episode overall from the Fox series Gotham.
▸ noun:  a 1929 American sound part-talkie film produced by Walter Morosco and directed by William Seiter for First National Pictures.
▸ noun:  (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) the soundtrack album to the 2013 film Prisoners directed by Denis Villeneuve and featured a musical score composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson.


Opposite:
liberated, free, released, unconfined, emancipated

Types:
juvenile, felon, inmate, convict, criminal, more...

Phrases:
political prisoners, prisoners dilemma, prisoners base, prisoners of war, take no prisoners, more...

Adjectives:
political, other, many, german, american, several, french, fellow, few, british, female



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Opposite:
liberated, free, released, unconfined, emancipated

Types:
juvenile, felon, inmate, convict, criminal, more...

Phrases:
political prisoners, prisoners dilemma, prisoners base, prisoners of war, take no prisoners, takes no prisoners, taking no prisoners, took no prisoners, iterated prisoners dilemma, prisoners of conscience, more...

Adjectives:
political, other, many, german, american, several, french, fellow, few, british, female




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