ransom
Noun
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Money demanded for the return of a captured person (synset 113305071)
is a type of: cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and laborsame as: ransom money
- Payment for the release of someone (synset 101123906)
- The act of freeing from captivity or punishment (synset 100097671)
Verb
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Exchange or buy back for money;
Under threat (synset 202261806)referred to in: crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil actsame as: redeem
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