Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
HOSTAGES
Noun
hostages
plural of hostage
Anagrams
• she-goats
Source: Wiktionary
HOSTAGE
Hos"tage, n. Etym: [OE. hostage, OF. hostage, ostage, F. Ă´tage, LL. hostaticus, ostaticum, for hospitaticum, fr. L. hospes guest, host. The first meaning is, the state of a guest, hospitality; hence, the state of a hostage (treated as a guest); and both these meanings occur in Old French. See Host a landlord.]
Definition: A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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