ransom payment

collocation in English

meaningsofransomandpayment

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ransom
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈræn.səm/us
/ˈræn.səm/
a large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner, or sometimes for ...
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payment
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/us
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/
an amount of ...
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(Definition ofransomandpaymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofransom payment

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Women and children, finally, are carried away as prisoners, but readily released, with or without aransompayment, after peace has been restored.
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It is aransompayment.
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He was released only after aransompayment.
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Victorious military heroes have been honoured by rewards of diamonds and also have been used asransompaymentfor release from imprisonment or abduction.
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Failing this, the partnerships in which we are investing so much may as well be called ransom payments.
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After seeing the profitability of ransom payments, some financiers and former militiamen later began to fund pirate activities, splitting the profits evenly with the pirates.
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It has been estimated by piracy experts that in 2008 the pirates gained about $80 million through ransom payments.
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At least $600m (366m) in ransom payments has been extorted.
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One report estimated its revenues from ransom payments in 2000 alone between $10 and $25 million.
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Some of the pirates fled without taking any ransoms, but it appears that others were indeed given ransom payments before leaving the ships they had taken.
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Gwen also objects to the ransom payments, as she could not fathom why the family would want to risk money for two househelps.
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