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Cosa (chi) è ransom money - definizione

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         
·noun To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
II. Ransom ·noun The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
III. Ransom ·noun A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
IV. Ransom ·noun The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
V. Ransom ·noun 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.
ransom         
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. See also: abduction kidnapping
ransom         
I. n.
1.
Price of redemption.
2.
Release, liberation, redemption, deliverance.
II. v. a.
1.
Redeem.
2.
Rescue, liberate, deliver, redeem.

Wikipedia

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".

Esempi dal corpus di testo per ransom money
1. While Melchor never paid any ransom money, he suffered greatly.
2. Police said some of this ransom money has been recovered.
3. The police have also recovered Rs 12.1 million ransom money, two cars and weapons.
4. Biggest givers France, Italy and Germany have all publicly denied paying any ransom money.
5. They are threatening to cut off city lighting and power supplies unless they are paid huge sums of ransom money.