0 a large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner, or sometimes for an animal:
2 a sum of money demanded in exchange for someone or something that has been taken:
The lives of those gentlemen depended upon the payment of those ransoms.
Our policy of no substantive concessions precludes the payment of ransoms.
However, the value of the ransomed strips to the landowner is now enormous.
Naturally, we must deal severely with the human traffickers who are currently holding these refugees hostage and demanding extremely high ransoms for them.
They have paid king's ransoms to the people traffickers and triad gangs.
The many captives required regular fundraising by families and local church groups, who generally raised the ransoms for individuals.
At the head of his bands, he acquired considerable riches from collecting ransoms and spoils.
Blackmailers and people demanding ransoms are often heard in movies to ask for a sum of money in used notes.
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