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Definition of POW noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

POW

noun
 
/ˌpiː əʊ ˈdʌbljuː/
 
/ˌpiː əʊ ˈdʌbljuː/
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  1. 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.
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPOW is used before these nouns:
    • camp
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