prisoner of war
noun🔊/ˌprɪznər əv ˈwɔː(r)/
🔊/ˌprɪznər əv ˈwɔːr/
(plural prisoners of war)
(abbreviation POW)
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 战俘；俘虏 After several more months as a prisoner of war, he escaped again. 又当了几个月的战俘之后，他再次逃跑了。 He was held as a prisoner of war. 他被作为战俘关押起来了。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPrisoner of war is used before these nouns:- camp