escaped prisoner

collocation in English

meaningsofescapedandprisoner

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escaped
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪˈskeɪpt/us
/ɪˈskeɪpt/
having ...
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prisoner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprɪz.ən.ər/us
/ˈprɪz.ən.ɚ/
a person who is kept in prison as ...
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(Definition ofescapedandprisonerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He pointed out that certain things which had been said about anescapedprisonerwere perhaps improper.
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A further statement dealt with the treatment of anescapedprisonerof war on arrival in this country.
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Even more striking is the increase from two years to 10 years—five times as long—for harbouring or assisting anescapedprisoner.
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I also want to press the case of theescapedprisonerwho has been shut up for one or two years.
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The first is simply that assisting an escape, and harbouring anescapedprisoner, are grave offences.
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Additional information, including a description of anescapedprisoner, may be issued by the police if they consider it necessary to assist his recovery.
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One of them proved to be theescapedprisoner, although he had grown a beard and dyed his hair.
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He is already anescapedprisoner.
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Legal authority for custody of a prisoner in the course of his transfer and for the arrest of anescapedprisonermust also, of course, be provided for.
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It takes a whole police force to catch a gang of train robbers and to catch anescapedprisoner—200,000 people hidden in the jungle, well armed, cannot be defeated.
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The film is about a group of people trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with anescapedprisoner.
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The story is highly symbolic, with pastoral scenes of children combing a hillsidein search of theescapedprisoner.
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On one occasion anescapedprisonerrang up his show to put his side of things.
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However, anescapedprisonerhappened upon the area.
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Theescapedprisonersays that he is beyond salvation, but that it makes him proud that his student has learned so well.
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He appears thrice in the series, first as anescapedprisoner, then as a hired thug for a corrupt official, and again as anescapedprisoner.
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The bright colours were chosen to aid the recognition of escaped prisoners.
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During the goldrush era, they were also used to patrol goldfields and search for escaped prisoners.
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Storming the city, they made quick work of the escaped prisoners.
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The object was to locate escaped prisoners of war in the interior and muster them on beach locations for extraction.
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