POW
noun/ˌpiː əʊ ˈdʌbljuː/
/ˌpiː əʊ ˈdʌbljuː/
- a person, usually a member of the armed forces, who is captured by the enemy during a war and kept in a prison camp until the war has finished (the abbreviation for ‘prisoner of war’)
- a POW camp
- He remained a POW for the rest of the war.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPOW is used before these nouns:- camp
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