Money demanded for the return of a captured person.
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Examples for "ransom "
1 Journalists, along with foreign aid workers, also risk being kidnapped for ransom .
2 I think that Boris Johnson is trying to hold Europe to ransom .
3 The British government said it was not involved in any ransom payment.
4 The FARC holds hundreds of kidnap victims for ransom and political leverage.
5 A government spokesman said that no ransom was paid for Yasuda's release.
1 They know you'll keep the boy alive to get the ransom money .
2 You're double-crossin' me now-allon a chance at kidnappin' for ransom money .
3 The kidnappers usually are young men from Arab tribes who demand ransom money .
4 We all share the ransom money , the 30-year-old former fisherman said.
5 Jerry needs the ransom money , and Carl needs the tan Ciera.
6 I shall be there on the scene when the ransom money is claimed.'
7 Why don't you keep the ransom money here in the vault.
8 They will be trying to get ransom money from your husband.
9 Darfur has seen many kidnappings this year, mostly by young men demanding ransom money .
10 His only concern is discussing how to split the ransom money and the car.
11 But there was first the ransom money to be secured.
12 Shergar was seized by senior IRA figures who hoped to secure £2m in ransom money .
13 There was no exchange of ransom money , he added.
14 He was released after ransom money was handed over.
15 The idea of bandits carrying off a person for ransom money in the State of Maine.
16 We're also keeping tabs on your ransom money .
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