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• captive audience — /ˌkæptɪv ɔ:diəns/ noun the people who cannot avoid being exposed to an advertisement ● Advertisers like to have their posters in underground stations where there is a large captive audience …   Marketing dictionary in english

• captive audience — /kæptɪv ˈɔdiəns/ (say kaptiv awdeeuhns) noun people who have entered into a situation for a particular purpose, as at a restaurant, and are subjected to advertisements, propaganda, solicitations, etc., without their consent …  

• captive — cap‧tive [ˈkæptɪv] adjective [only before a noun] captive viewers or customers watch a company s advertisements or buy a company s products because they have no other choice: • Kids in the classroom are a captive audience to whom ads may seem a… …   Financial and business terms

• captive — [kap′tiv] n. [L captivus < captus, pp. of capere, to take: see HAVE] 1. a person caught and held prisoner, as in war 2. a person who is captivated, as by beauty or love adj. 1. a) taken or held prisoner b) not able …   English World dictionary

• captive — [[t]kæ̱ptɪv[/t]] captives 1) ADJ A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed. [LITERARY] Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal. Syn: prisoner N COUNT A captive is someone who is captive. He… …   English dictionary

• captive — cap|tive1 [ˈkæptıv] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: captivus, from captus, past participle of capere to take ] 1.) kept in prison or in a place that you are not allowed to leave ▪ captive soldiers ▪ captive animals ▪ His son had been taken …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• captive — 1 adjective 1 (only before noun) unable to move about freely because of being kept in prison or in a small space: Captive soldiers passed by in chains. | captive animals 2 take/hold sb captive to keep someone as a prisoner: The American officers… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• audience — noun 1 group of people watching/listening to sth ADJECTIVE ▪ big, capacity, large, mass, packed, vast ▪ broad, diverse, wide …   Collocations dictionary

• Dayparting — Approximate US television broadcast dayparts for weekdays EST. In Broadcast programming, dayparting is the practice of dividing the day into several parts, during each of which a different type of radio programming or television programming… …   Wikipedia

• The New Yorker — For other uses, see New Yorker (disambiguation). The New Yorker First issue s cover with dandy Eustace Tilley, created by Rea Irvin. The image, or a variation of it, appears on the cover of The New Yorker with every anniversary issue. Editor… …   Wikipedia

• Force9 — (aka F9) was the original name of the ISP that now trades as PlusNet PLC.Detailed HistoryIn early 1997, a PC computer peripherals company based in Worksop (UK), decided to have a crack at a new market opportunity.They had sold a lot of modems.… …   Wikipedia