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  • noun Plural form of kidnapee.

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Examples

  • Once they have obtained their target, students will quickly return to class to place the kidnapees under the custody of the prison guards.

    Kidnapping « Peace Corps: China 2006

  • All three stories you quoted make me ill, but the one about the Nepalese kidnapees/slaves was the worst.

    a few faces of fascism 2008

  • Yet, when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC guerrilla group took three U.S. military contractors hostage in 2003 and granted them POW status, the U.S. government still officially designated the contractors as kidnapees.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • Not really; the African kings and their coastal helpers could be seen as just mostly ignorant of what their war captives and kidnapees were being used at huge profit.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Not really; the African kings and their coastal helpers could be seen as just mostly ignorant of what their war captives and kidnapees were being used at huge profit.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Not really; the African kings and their coastal helpers could be seen as just mostly ignorant of what their war captives and kidnapees were being used at huge profit.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Not really; the African kings and their coastal helpers could be seen as just mostly ignorant of what their war captives and kidnapees were being used at huge profit.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • I wouldn’t say that audiences have particularly missed the young lad, but with what we have seen of Alex and the tail section children, these kidnapees come to “walk with the others”.

    The Tail Section » 2006 » March 2006

  • I wouldn’t say that audiences have particularly missed the young lad, but with what we have seen of Alex and the tail section children, these kidnapees come to “walk with the others”.

    The Tail Section » LOST Season 2 — A tough hatch to follow? 2006

  • The President and his lawyer – now AG – have had publication of their memo that they are setting up the “enemy combatants†illusive labeling system for cabdrivers and kidnapees specifically to try to evade application of the War Crimes Act.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Tapping the Source 2006

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