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The answer RANSOM has 201 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of ransom in various dictionaries:
noun - money demanded for the return of a captured person
noun - payment for the release of someone
noun - the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
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| In Old English law, it was the money paid for the pardoning of an offense; today, it's paid to kidnappers |
| In an O. Henry story, a boy kidnapped for this payment is so much trouble that in the end the kidnappers pay to return him |
| It's the money paid for the return of a kidnap victim |
| Last name of the hero of "The Bostonians", or a Mel Gibson film about kidnapping |
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| a sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a captive. |
| obtain the release of (a captive) by paying a ransom. |
| the act of freeing from captivity or punishment |
| payment for the release of someone |
| money demanded for the return of a captured person |
| exchange or buy back for money under threat |
| a large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner, or sometimes for an animal: |
| to pay money in order to set someone free: |
| a sum of money demanded in exchange for someone or something that has been taken: |
| to free someone who has been taken away by paying money: |
| Ransom description |
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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 may refer to the sum of money involved. * When ransom means "payment", the word comes via Old French rançon from Latin redemptio = "buying back": compare "redemption". |