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What does ransom mean?
Definitions in simple English

ransom Noun

— A ransom is the money demanded by criminals usually paid for the release of a kidnapped person. The kidnappers wanted us to pay $2.5million as ransom to release the boy.

ransom

— noun payment for the release of someone — noun money demanded for the return of a captured person — noun the act of freeing from captivity or punishment — verb exchange or buy back for money; under threat

Synonyms ransom synonyms

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ransom English » English

redeem redemption payment save fine rescue ransom money penalty buy off buy back bail out untangling unsnarling sacrifice repurchase reparation release redemption money redeeming price make amends freeing free extrication emancipation disentanglement compensate buying buy out bloodmoney blood-money bail amends

Topics ransom topics

What do people use ransom to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Physical actions Move Pursue

Set free

Conjugation ransom conjugation

How do you conjugate ransom?

ransom · verb

Examples ransom examples

How do I use ransom in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom refused to pay the ransom.
Tom immediately agreed to pay the ransom.
Tom immediately agreed to pay the ransom for his beloved wife Mary.
The hijacker demanded a ransom of two million dollars.
Tom withdrew three hundred thousand dollars from the bank to pay the ransom.
Tom denies that he paid ransom money.
Tom denies he paid ransom money.
Tom paid the ransom.

Movie subtitles

Whoever took up arms against us may pay a ransom of ten pieces of gold, to enjoy freedom, along with his wife and children, and all their property.
For a ransom?
Then I will be his ransom.
What ransom will you take for my wife?
I will take no ransom.
Check those bills against the numbers of these ransom banknotes.
What'd they rip his car up for unless it was to find ransom dough?
Go on, we know you found ransom money.
And from Leopold, I have received a ransom demand of 1 50,000 gold marks.
And now, with the help of this sweet band of cutthroats.. you'll try to grind a ransom for him out of every helpless Saxon.
A ransom that'll be used not to release Richard.. buttobuyyourwaytothe throne.
The ransom, Your Highness?
The ransom.
If need be, we'll ransom ourselves!
They specialize in snatch-and-grabs ranging from kidnap and ransom to extracting political dissidents.
I knew they were holding us for ransom.
A king's ransom there, boys.
The ransom for you two is fixed at 20,000 pieces of eight.
Their ransom.
The ransom is to be paid by Gov. Bishop.
But if the Governor should refuse to pay the ransom, what then?
If you're to keep the girl meanwhile, pay the ransom.
We ripped it up. Go on, we know you found ransom money.
Why, all Wilson had on him of the ransom money was a five-dollar bill.
And from Leopold, I have received a ransom demand of 150,000 gold marks.
And now, with the help of this sweet band of cutthroats you'll try to grind a ransom for him out of every helpless Saxon.
They specialize in snatch-and-grabs, ranging from kidnap and ransom to extracting political dissidents.
Yes, yes, of course. The ransom.
Bid him therefore consider of his ransom; which must proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we have lost, the disgrace we have digested.
Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry, if for thy ransom thou wilt now compound, before thy most assured overthrow.
Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
Did you get any ransom note?
My brother, Prince John, has knowledge of it yet he has denied me ransom, 150,000 marks of silver.
What is the ransom?
I seek 150,000 marks of silver the price of Richard's ransom from Leopold of Austria.
A horse and gear would borrow from the ransom.

News and current affairs

After all, as a campaigning investigative journalist she made many people angry besides Putin, not least of which is the current Chechen Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, whom she accused of a policy of kidnapping for ransom.
Varoufakis's idea of strategy is to hold a gun to his own head, then demand a ransom for not pulling the trigger.
The latest Greek negotiating strategy is to demand a ransom to desist threatening suicide.
Moreover, when Michael Foley, brother of James Foley, one of the hostages, received a ransom demand, the FBI warned him that under US law, to pay money to terrorists is a crime.
Applying it can seem justifiable if we put ourselves in the position of a captive, or imagine that our child, parent, or spouse has been captured by terrorists who make a credible offer to release our loved one for a ransom.
Moreover, the additional military strength that terrorists gain from ransom revenue is not the only harm caused by paying ransoms.
At the same time, we are paying a king's ransom for biomass.
For their part, the militias that overthrew Qaddafi have released prisoners in exchange for ransom payments.
Recognizing this problem, banks can hold their host governments to ransom.
ISIL's ransom demand was not just a bid for cash; it sent a powerful message.
When the ransom demand did not work, ISIL shifted its approach, but not its goal.
When the ransom could not be raised, one was beheaded.
Hunger drove the armies to take hostages for ransom.
The Japanese aid, like the ransom paid to a kidnapper, must be provided by April 15, just in time for the commemoration of Kim Il-song's birth - a clear indication of North Korea's true intentions, and desperation.

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