1) American romance novel 2) American young adult novel 3) Bucks for captives 4) Buy back 5) Cash on demand 6) Coerced payment 7) Cost 8) Demand from a kidnapper 9) Dropped money 10) English boy name 11) Figure in a kidnapping case 12) Forced fee for freedom 13) Free money 14) Free, but not for free
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1) Redeem
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- money demanded for the return of a captured person
- payment for the release of someone
- the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
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1) n. money paid to a kidnapper in demand for the release of the person abducted. Ransom money can also be paid to return a valuable object such as a stolen painting. 2) v. to pay money to an abductor to return the person held captive.
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Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or it can refer to the sum of money involved. In an early German law, a similar concept was called weregild. When ransom means `payment`, the word comes via Old French rançon from Latin redemptio = `buying back`: compare `redemption`. I...
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• (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy. • (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. • (n.) A sum pa...
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(n) Ransom is the money or compensation demanded by the person who has illegitimately detained a person or article for reliving such person or returning such articles
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Ran'som transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Ransomed (-sŭmd);
present participle & verbal noun Ransoming .] [ Confer French
rançonner . See
Ransom ,
noun ]
1. To redeem fro...
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Ran'som (răn'sŭm) noun [ Middle English raunson , raunsoun , Old French rançon , raençon , raançon , French rançon , from Latin redemptio , from redimere to redeem. See Redeem , and confer Redemption .] 1.
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An agreement made between the commander of a capturing vessel with the commander of a vanquished vessel, at sea, by which the former permits the latter to depart with his vessel, and gives him a safe conduct, in consideration of a sum of money, which the commander of the vanquished vessel, in his own name, and in the name of the owners of his vesse...
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1) As a noun, money paid to, or demanded by, someone in exchange for the release of a kidnapped person or stolen property. 2) As a verb, ransom may refer to either end of the transaction -- that is, it may mean to demand payment for release of a person held captive, or it may mean to pay money in exchange for the release of the person held captive....
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The USS Ransom was an American Admirable Class minesweeper of 625 tons displacement launched in 1943. The USS Ransom was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 14.5 knots and carried a complement of 104. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun and four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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[
n] - money demanded for the return of a captured person 2. [n] - payment for the release of someone 3. [n] - the act of freeing from captivity or punishment 4. [v] - exchange or buy back for money
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noun the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
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Ransom is an English name for boys. The meaning is `warrior`s shield` The name Ransom is -as far as we know- only given to American boys.
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