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 Translation for 'captive' from English to Bulgarian
NOUN   a captive | captives
SYNO absorbed | captive | confined | ...
captive {noun}пленник {м}
captive {noun}затворник {м}
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Translation for 'captive' from English to Bulgarian

captive {noun}
пленник {м}

затворник {м}
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Usage Examples English
  • His Assisting Military Officer, who met with the captive, indicated that the captive was "uncooperative or unresponsive".
  • In August 2012, Edwards Wildman acted as legal adviser to Thomson Reuters in Connecticut's first captive insurer.
  • As of 2021 there are over 100 captive Persian leopards in zoos worldwide, and the European Endangered Species Programme has a captive breeding program to sustain a backup population.
  • A captive helicopter is a helicopter which is tethered to the ground with a rope, as with a captive balloon. Captive helicopters can be used for the same purposes as captive balloons.
  • Being migratory species, it is important that captive-bred bustards undertake similar migrations as wild birds.

  • The oldest recorded eastern green mamba was a captive specimen that lived 18.8 years. Another captive specimen lived 14 years.
  • In 2011 Anguilla became the fifth-largest jurisdiction for captive insurance, behind Bermuda, Cayman, Vermont and Guernsey.
  • Because of their large captive population, the American Federation of Aviculture asked that captive-born Blue-Throated Macaws not be listed through a 19-page submission to the federal government.
  • This law makes it illegal for any person, institute, or corporation to breed captive Orcas, illegal to move or receive captive Orcas or Orca embryos from a captive orca from any state or country, and illegal to use captive orcas as a mean of entertainment/performance.
  • If moved to another marine mammal captive facility, Morgan is likely to eventually be used in the captive breeding programs which many aquariums now advocate.

  • RRGs are often grouped with captive and other self-insured entities and, therefore, have their interests represented by state captive associations, such as the Vermont Captive Insurance Association, and other captive associations, such as the Captive Insurance Company Association.
  • However, due to captive breeding, more and more captive bred lizards are available.
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