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is captives
adjective
Held prisoner; not free; confined.
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And when it is in a 401 k), it is captive.
One is "captive" operations of big western companies looking to reduce back-office costs without outsourcing.
The cable used for this purpose is captive to the roadside charging point.
Some may feel that they are captive.
Or, more darkly, that she was captive somewhere, but alive.
We're captive to the equity markets," said Sam Paddison at Evergreen Asset Management in Philadelphia.
Suddenly we were captive.
I was captive.
But soon she too was captive.
Most of these frogs are caught from the wild, but some are captive-reared.
Norwegian oil company Statoil said nine of its Norwegian staff and three Algerian employees were captive.
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