Captive in a sentence as a noun

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.

There is no reason for us to be a part of San Fran's captive housing market.

You being a bridge between those smart people and their captive techies can make you indispensable.

Once we gain market dominance, we can use our captive audience to build our social network!

And of course, whenever there's a captive market, there's somebody who profits from it.

To answer a few questions I've seen, it uses a typical captive portal approach, so an unencrypted WiFi hotspot.

Captive in a sentence as an adjective

Compared to what?You show children how we hold an animal captive for our own amusement and then you take offense when the animal shows discontent.

Having a captive, wealthy audience for ~30 minutes seems like a ripe opportunity, whether it is restaurants, masseuses, or cafes.

I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country.

This creates a captive market, severely limiting the effectiveness of inter-city competition.

There's a chance we might see things change with Persona but … I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this won't happen quickly and, even if it does, it's going to be hard to find many developers willing to turn down a Facebook-scale salary to work on a turn-key level captive portal system priced at what an ice-cream shop can afford to pay.

Captive definitions

noun

a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

See also: prisoner

noun

an animal that is confined

noun

a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion

adjective

being in captivity

See also: confined imprisoned jailed

adjective

giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought"

See also: absorbed engrossed enwrapped intent wrapped