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Hostage (TV series)
Hostage is a 2025 Netflix British political thriller limited series, five episodes created by Matt Charman, starring Suranne Jones as UK PM Abigail Dalton and Julie Delpy as French President Vivienne Toussaint, released August 21, 2025.
Hostage (Zhiren) System
The Hostage (Zhiren) System (质任制度) was the practice of detaining relatives of generals and officials to deter rebellion, formalized at the end of the Han dynasty.
Hostage Army (Turuqaq Army)
The Hostage Army (质子军), also called the Turuqaq Army, was a Yuan-dynasty formation of sons and relatives of submitted rulers, held at court as troops and pledges.
Hostage Rescue Team
The Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), also known as FBI HRT, is the FBI's full-time tactical unit for counterterrorism and hostage rescue, created in 1983 and based at Quantico.
Hostage system
The hostage system (人質制度) of late sixteenth-century Japan was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's practice of requiring subordinate daimyo to keep their wives and heirs near his seat of power as surety for their loyalty.
Hostages (2022 TV series)
Hostages (2022 TV series) is a four-part HBO Documentary Films docuseries by Show of Force on the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, premiering September 28, 2022, with interviews of hostages and hostage-takers and a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Hostages (2025 film)
Hostages (2025) is a British comedy thriller directed and written by Jim Owen, starring Charlotte Ritchie, Tanya Moodie, and Nicholas Asbury as strangers trapped in a London hotel during a terror scare; distinct from iHostage and the Israeli documentary Hostages.
Hostages (web series)
Hostages is a Hindi-language Indian thriller web series (2019-2020) on Hotstar, adapted from the Israeli series Bnei Aruba, directed by Sudhir Mishra and starring Tisca Chopra and Ronit Roy; distinct from the 2013 CBS series and Netflix's Hostage.
Hostaway
Hostaway is a Finland-headquartered software company offering an all-in-one vacation rental management platform, founded in 2015 and valued at a reported $925 million in 2024.
Hosted payload
A hosted payload is a sensor or instrument attached to another party's satellite, sharing its power and communications; a NASA study found it saves nearly half the mission cost.
Hostel
A hostel, also called a youth hostel, is budget accommodation offering beds in shared dormitories or private rooms with communal kitchens and bathrooms, first conceived in Germany in 1909.
Hostel (2005 film)
Hostel is a 2005 American horror film written and directed by Eli Roth, in which three backpackers touring Europe are lured to a Slovakian hostel and fall into murderous hands.
Hostel Days
Hostel Days is a 2023 Telugu comedy-drama Prime Video series, TVF's Telugu remake of Hostel Daze, directed by Aditya Mandala, five episodes about six engineering hostel students; distinct from the Bengali Hoichoi series of the same name.
Hostel Daze
Hostel Daze (हॉस्टल डेज़): TVF Hindi comedy-drama web series on Prime Video (2019–2023), four seasons, 21 episodes, following four engineering hostel wing-mates from first semester to final-year placements; IMDb 8.5; remade in Telugu as Hostel Days.
Hostel: Part II
Hostel: Part II is a 2007 American horror film written and directed by Eli Roth, following three American women in Rome lured to a Slovakian torture ring.
Hostel: Part III
Hostel: Part III (Hostel 3) is a 2011 direct-to-DVD horror film directed by Scott Spiegel, set at a Las Vegas bachelor party, the only Hostel film without Eli Roth.
Hostert
US Hostert (Football Club Union Sportive Hostert) is a Luxembourg football club founded 1946 in Hostert, Niederanven; a lower-league club until 2011, now in the National Division, 2018 cup finalist.
Hostess Brands
Hostess Brands, American maker of Twinkies, CupCakes, Ding Dongs, and Ho Hos; twice bankrupt (2004, 2012), revived by Apollo and Metropoulos in 2013, listed as TWNK in 2016, acquired by J.M. Smucker for $5.6 billion in November 2023.
Hosties noires
Hosties noires, or Black Hosts, is a 1948 collection of French poems by Senegalese poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor, a founding work of Negritude honoring the African colonial soldiers who fought for France.
Hostile architecture
Hostile architecture, also called defensive or exclusionary design, shapes public space to deter sleeping, sitting, or skateboarding; known for anti-homeless spikes, divided benches, the 2014 London spikes controversy, and the first US ban in Connecticut (2025).
Hostile attribution bias
Hostile attribution bias is the widespread tendency to interpret other people's ambiguous actions as intended to cause harm, first described in 1979 and associated with aggression, conduct disorders, and narcissism.
Hostile environment training
Hostile environment training, most commonly delivered as HEFAT or HEAT, prepares journalists and humanitarian workers for war zones and unrest through classroom teaching and realistic scenario exercises.
Hostile work environment
Hostile work environment: unlawful US workplace harassment based on a protected characteristic, severe or pervasive enough that a reasonable person would find the environment intimidating, hostile, or abusive, under Title VII, ADEA, and ADA.
Hostiles (film)
Hostiles (2017) is an American Western directed by Scott Cooper, starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, and Wes Studi, adapted from a Donald Stewart manuscript; filmed in New Mexico, released January 2018, grossing $29.8 million. Distinct from the 2017 horror film Hostile.
Hostilia
Hostilia, ancient Roman vicus and Po river port at modern Ostiglia, Mantua, Italy; on the Via Claudia Augusta crossing and the Tabula Peutingeriana route Ravenna ab Hostilia per Padum; named in Pliny and Tacitus.
Hosting and organization of the International Physics Olympiad
Hosting of the International Physics Olympiad rotates to a different country almost every year since 1967, with each host paying costs through a national organizing committee.
Hosting capacity
Hosting capacity is the maximum amount of distributed energy resources, including rooftop solar and battery storage, that an existing electric distribution grid can accommodate safely without infrastructure upgrades.
Hostinger
Hostinger is a private Lithuanian web hosting company founded in 2004 as Hosting Media and headquartered in Vilnius, offering shared, cloud, and VPS hosting, domains, and AI-driven website-building tools.
Hostname
A hostname, also called a nodename, is a label, or dot-separated sequence of labels, that names a device on a network, most commonly on the Internet.
Hostplus
Hostplus is an Australian profit-for-member industry superannuation fund, established in 1987 to serve hospitality and tourism workers, managing over $158 billion for about 2 million members.