📖 Definitions of "Ransom"
noun
- 1
Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
"They were held for two million dollars ransom."
- 2
The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
"prisoners hopeless of ransom"
- 3
A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
verb
- 1
(14th century) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
- 2
To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
"to ransom prisoners from an enemy"
- 3
To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
"Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. — Berners."
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