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What (who) is blood money - definition
blood money
¦ noun
1. money paid in compensation to the family of someone who has been killed.
2. money paid to a hired killer.
blood money
1.
If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
Defence lawyers have still not agreed to terms for payment of blood money to the victims' families.
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2.
Blood money is money that is paid to someone for murdering someone.
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Blood money
·- Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
II. Blood money ·- Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life;
- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.
Examples of use of blood money
1. to accept 450,000 ‘blood money‘? Marcel Berlins Wednesday October 4, 2006 The Guardian What‘s so wrong with blood money?
2. But Mobarak’s estranged husband refused to accept the blood money.
3. In Hitman÷ Blood Money, players shoot people for money.
4. And yet, we are not interested in this blood money.
5. Punishment – payment of blood money, or whipping – was immediate.