Abduct vs Hostage - What's the difference?
abduct | hostage |
To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
* {{quote-book
, year=1904
, author=Jules Verne
, title=The Master of the World
, chapter=16
, url=http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/v/verne/jules/v52mw/chapter16.html
, passage=That same night he had by force abducted the president and the secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the “Albatross,” which he had constructed.}}
(physiology) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position; to move similar parts apart.
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.