captive audience Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌkæp.tɪv ˈɔː.di.əns]
  • Us [ ˌkæp.tɪv ˈɑː.di.əns]

Meaning of captive audience In English

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Examples of captive audience

  • Hate speech that does not involve a captive audience would not fall within the scope of such a regulation.

  • Theatre foyers have wall space and a captive audience.

  • Johnny maintains a presence in the household, occasionally appearing to the benefits of free meals and the captive audience that the estranged adolescents provide at the kitchen table.

  • Finally, we might consider restricting hate speech to speech that is suitably hard to avoid and so involves a captive audience.

  • They are a captive audience, let us make the most of them.

  • Personal and political agendas were often bound up together, and a captive audience over a dinner table was too good an opportunity to pass up.

  • This hucksterism speaks to a captive audience in industrialized societies that increasingly appears to believe that something can and should always be 'done' to counter disease and death.

  • Children are a captive audience—even in these days—in their classrooms.

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