Apakah maksud ransom dalam Bahasa Inggeris dan Apakah definisi ransom?

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ransom Maksud & Definisi

0 a sum of money etc paid for the freeing of a prisoner -- wang pampasan
- They paid a ransom of $40,000
- (also adjective) They paid $40,000 in ransom money.
1 to pay money etc to free (someone). -- membayar wang pampasan
2 to keep (a person) as a prisoner until a sum of money etc is paid for his release. -- tebusan

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.