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Τι (ποιος) είναι Ransom - ορισμός

PRACTICE OF HOLDING A PRISONER OR ITEM TO EXTORT MONEY OR PROPERTY
Ransom note; Ransom money
  • Ransom note delivered to the family of [[Adolph Coors III]] in 1960
  • "The Ransom", [[John Everett Millais]], c. 1860

ransom         
n.
1) to pay (a) ransom for
2) to demand; exact a ransom from
3) to hold smb. for ransom
ransom         
(ransoms, ransoming, ransomed)
1.
A ransom is the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped.
Her kidnapper successfully extorted a ?175,000 ransom for her release...
N-VAR
2.
If you ransom someone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free.
The same system was used for ransoming or exchanging captives.
VERB: V n
3.
If a kidnapper is holding someone to ransom or holding them ransom in British English, or is holding a person for ransom in American English, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want
He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom...
PHRASE: V inflects
4.
If you say that someone is holding you to ransom in British English, or holding you for ransom in American English, you mean that they are using their power to try to force you to do something which you do not want to do.
Unison and the other unions have the power to hold the Government to ransom.
PHRASE: V inflects [disapproval]
ransom         
¦ noun a sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a captive.
¦ verb obtain the release of (someone) by paying a ransom.
?hold (someone) captive and demand a ransom for their release.
?release after receiving a ransom.
Phrases
hold someone to ransom demand concessions from a person or organization by threatening damaging action.
a king's ransom a huge amount of money.
Origin
ME: from OFr. ransoun (n.), ransouner (v.), from L. redemptio(n-) (see redemption).

Βικιπαίδεια

Ransom

Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or the sum of money involved in such a practice.

When ransom means "payment", the word comes via Old French rançon from Latin redemptio = "buying back": compare "redemption".

Παραδείγματα από το σώμα κειμένου για Ransom
1. "There was no ransom demand and no ransom was paid.
2. He said the U.N. will not pay a ransom and are not discussing a ransom with the suspected kidnappers.
3. Ransom demand: The kidnappers contacted MM officials and demanded a ransom, said Hatam Hattab al–Janabi of MM.
4. Reports of the big ransom paid last month are merely likely to inflate their eventual ransom price.
5. He said the gang used to kidnap people for ransom and receive the ransom amount through hundi in other countries.