fellow prisoner

collocation in English

meaningsoffellowandprisoner

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fellow
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfel.əʊ/us
/ˈfel.oʊ/
used to refer to someone who has the same job or interests as you, or is in the same situation ...
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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 offellowandprisonerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffellow prisoner

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I have not dealt with the case of afellowprisoner.
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Then if one talked once again to hisfellowprisoner, he was punished not for talking to the prisoner, but for disobeying an order.
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Ironically, one of these young men died some years later by the violence of afellowprisoner.
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That is not to say that he may not do a piece of mischief against afellowprisoner.
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He claimed that those responsible for the prison discipline and prison security knew or should have known that hisfellowprisonerwas dangerous or liable to attack him.
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He first put the prospect of escaping to climb it to afellowprisonerwho was a professional mountaineer.
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Informing or any other action to the detriment of afellowprisoneris despicable and is expressly forbidden.
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Farragut struggles to retain his humanity in the prison environment, and begins an affair with afellowprisoner.
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He used a blasting cap smuggled to him by afellowprisoner.
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However, subsequently, the commissar did not provide sufficient numbers of the cameras to his superiors, and he also found himself afellowprisoner.
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Mulder talks with afellowprisonerwho tells him that innocent people have been captured and brought here to be subjected to experiments.
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It is firmly established today that the diary was dictated to him by police officers through afellowprisoner.
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He unsuccessfully attempted to escape three times, once only failing because he wouldn't leave behind an illfellowprisoner.
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Ghotbzadeh supposedly told this to afellowprisonerspecifically hired to entrap him.
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The long-term political and historiographic consequences of archival displacement may be much greater than their more artistic fellow prisoners.
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Open-air exercise and association with their fellow prisoners are allowed.
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She saw her fellow prisoners once a day for an hour, and that is all.
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