ransom
has definitions from the fields of business,accounting
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[ noun ] (business) payment for the release of someone
Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)Kidnapper Spurns Ransom ; Amy Still Missing . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (accounting,business) money demanded for the return of a captured person
Synonyms Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)Emerson - Platonist , idealist , doctrinaire - sounded a high Transcendental note in his `` Boston_Hymn '' , delivered in 1863 in the Boston Music_Hall amidst thundering applause : `` Pay ransom to the owner and fill the bag to the brim . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1906
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[ noun ] the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
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