RANSOM MONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ransom money mean? 

• RANSOM MONEY (noun)
  The noun RANSOM MONEY has 1 sense:

1. money demanded for the return of a captured person

  Familiarity information: RANSOM MONEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANSOM MONEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money demanded for the return of a captured person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

ransom; ransom money

Hypernyms ("ransom money" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

 Context examples 

As her French sisters decayed she increased, for here, from north, and from east, and from south, came the plunder to be sold and the ransom money to be spent.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)