ransom
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈrænsəm/
:
rescate
- Kidnappers usually demand a ransom, don't they?
- pay the ransom
- ransom money
- ransom payments
They do not reimburse for ransom payments.
- They do not reimburse for ransom payments.
- And it demands A cryptocurrency ransom, right?
- When paid to a kidnapper, it's called a ransom.
- And so there was almost this like national security, economic impetus for them to pay this ransom.
- He kidnaps Frank Provocci, that Joe's brother and Joe Maglioco, who's the underboss of the family at that time and some other people for ransom money.
- They were going to sell him off and he got a ransom and came back and killed them all.
Examples
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Pirates kidnapped 62 people for ransom in 15 separate incidents in 2016.
Academic text (2017) -
"I was abducted by a couple who held me for ransom," he says calmly, over after-dinner coffee.
Fiction book (1992) -
Just pay the ransom money and report back here.
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Family paid the ransom, then they sent the kid home after a couple of days.
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Why was a ransom note e-mailed from your computer?
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Whether or not you leave the ransom, your daughter Melissa will be returned to you.
Fiction book (1999) -
It seems we have no choice, but to pay your ransom.
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Rising crime, especially the kidnapping of businessmen for ransom, is also leading to capital flight.
Academic text (2007) -
In 2008, Somali pirate militias were reported to have collected up to $150 million in ransom payments.
Academic text (2011) -
The kidnappers demanded a large ransom for her safe return.
Synonyms
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4.4
Money paid or asked to free a kidnapped person
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
How Large
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Ransom comes from an old idea of 'buy back' and is related to the word redeem. So a ransom is the money someone asks for to set a kidnapped person free.