If you take someone captive or hold someone captive, you take or keep them as a prisoner. Richard was finally released on February 4, one year and six weeks after he'd been taken captive. someone who is kept as a prisoner, especially in a war
An insurance or reinsurance subsidiary of an industrial company, trade association, or not-for-profit organization Captives insure or reinsure parent-related business, non-parent business, or both Though the number of domestic captives is increasing, most captives are still located in tax-advantaged offshore domiciles such as Barbados, Bermuda, or the U K 's Channel Islands
A captive audience is a group of people who are not free to leave a certain place and so have to watch or listen. A captive market is a group of people who cannot choose whether or where to buy things. We all performed action songs, sketches and dances before a captive audience of parents and patrons Airlines consider business travellers a captive market
A corporation formed by a business or a group of affiliated businesses for the purpose of accepting insurance or reinsurance risks in which they have an insurable interest
- A closely held insurance company established to meet the insurance or reinsurance needs of its owners Certain offshore insurers, known as "rent-a-captives," make their facilities available to other organizations for a fee
A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed. Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal. A captive is someone who is captive. He described the difficulties of surviving for four months as a captive. = prisoner