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: --
3 to free someone who has been taken away by paying money: --
The policies do not pay ransoms on the behalf of the insured.
In both incidents, ransoms were paid and the freighter was released.
The ransoms he had to collect when he was captured contributed to the ruin of his home.
There was a 50-day period for the payment of ransoms.
Ransom's debut season was his most successful, claiming 54 wickets at a bowling average of 28.50.
Meanwhile, most of the now independent princes began raising levies and warring with each other, or demanding ransoms from each other on threat of force.
Despite the efforts of middlemen and charities to raise money to provide ransoms, they were still very difficult to come by.
Blackmailers and people demanding ransoms are often heard in movies to ask for a sum of money in used notes.
