Captivity

Captivity or Captive may refer to:

• Imprisonment or hostage, the state of being confined to a space from which it is difficult or impossible to escape
  • Captive company
• Captivity (animal), the keeping of either domesticated animals (livestock and pets) or wild animals
• the Babylonian captivity of Judah, as described in the Bible
• Captivity narrative a genre of stories about people being captured by "uncivilized" enemies
• Captive! the eighth novel in World of Adventure series by Gary Paulsen
• Captive (video game), a 1990 computer role-playing game
• Captive NTFS, an open-source project
• Captivity Records, a Chicago, Illinois-based independent record label.
• Captive portal, a technique that forces an HTTP client on a network to see a special web page
• Captive insurance companies are insurance companies established with the specific objective of financing risks emanating from their parent group
• Captive service, a type of business process outsourcing where an organization will use a wholly owned subsidiary instead of a third party vendor
• Captive (soundtrack), the only solo album to date by The Edge, guitarist of U2