Usually means: Person or entity that captures.
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  1. captor: Merriam-Webster
  2. captor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. captor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. captor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Captor, captor: Wordnik
  6. captor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. captor: Wiktionary
  8. captor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. captor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. captor: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Captor, captor: Dictionary.com
  12. Captor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Captor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. captor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. captor: Rhymezone
  16. Captor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. captor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. captor: FreeDictionary.org
  19. captor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. captor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. captor: Vocabulary.com
  22. captor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Captor: Legal dictionary

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  1. CAPTOR: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (captor)

▸ noun:  One who is holding a captive or captives.
▸ noun:  One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.

Similar:
captivator, capturer, captivatress, captivatrix, hostage-taker, recaptor, catcher, hostage taker, kidnapper, snarer, more...

Opposite:
captive, prisoner

Types:
abductor, kidnapper, criminal, felon, more...

Phrases:
Euroradar CAPTOR, Mark 60 CAPTOR, opposite of captor, more...

Adjectives:
belligerent, former, actual, original, first, individual, indian, joint, late, second, chief



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Similar:
captivator, capturer, captivatress, captivatrix, hostage-taker, recaptor, catcher, hostage taker, kidnapper, snarer, more...

Opposite:
captive, prisoner

Types:
abductor, kidnapper, criminal, felon, more...

Phrases:
Euroradar CAPTOR, Mark 60 CAPTOR, opposite of captor, more...

Adjectives:
belligerent, former, actual, original, first, individual, indian, joint, late, second, chief



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