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ransom

/ran-suhm/US // ˈræn səm //UK // (ˈrænsəm) //

赎金,勒索,赎回,赎罪

Related Words

redemption赎回,兑换,赎罪,救赎price价格,价钱,价格方面,价位release释放,发布,发行,发布会compensation补偿,赔偿金,赔偿,补偿金deliverance拯救,解救,救助,救赎bribe贿赂,行贿,贿赂他人,贿赂别人payoff报酬,报偿,报答,报销payment支付,支付费用,支付方式,支付款项rescue拯救,救援,救助,拯救拯救expiation赎罪,补偿,赔偿,赔偿金regain重新获得,重获,重获新生,重新获得的recover恢复,复原,复苏,恢复原状deliver交付,提供,送达,递送free免费的,免费,自由的,自由redeem赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪extricate脱离,脱出,脱困,脱身manumit马努米特,马努姆,马努姆特,马纳姆save拯救,保存,节省,挽救liberate解放,解脱,释放,解救emancipate解放,解放了,解放思想,解脱

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the redemption of a prisoner or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
    • : the sum or price paid or demanded.
    • : a means of deliverance or rescue from punishment for sin, especially the payment of a redemptive fine.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to redeem from captivity, bondage, detention, etc., by paying a demanded price.
    • : to release or restore on receipt of a ransom.
    • : to deliver or redeem from punishment for sin.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounblackmail money paid for return of possession or person
Synonyms
bribe贿赂,行贿,贿赂他人,贿赂别人compensation补偿,赔偿金,赔偿,补偿金deliverance拯救,解救,救助,救赎expiation赎罪,补偿,赔偿,赔偿金payment支付,支付费用,支付方式,支付款项payoff报酬,报偿,报答,报销price价格,价钱,价格方面,价位redemption赎回,兑换,赎罪,救赎release释放,发布,发行,发布会rescue拯救,救援,救助,拯救拯救liberation money解放资金,解放货币,解放币,解放军的钱
verbpay blackmail money for return of possession or person
Synonyms
deliver交付,提供,送达,递送emancipate解放,解放了,解放思想,解脱extricate脱离,脱出,脱困,脱身free免费的,免费,自由的,自由liberate解放,解脱,释放,解救manumit马努米特,马努姆,马努姆特,马纳姆recover恢复,复原,复苏,恢复原状redeem赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪regain重新获得,重获,重获新生,重新获得的release释放,发布,发行,发布会reprise重演,重现,复述,复演repurchase回购,购回,买回,购买rescue拯救,救援,救助,拯救拯救save拯救,保存,节省,挽救unchain解锁,松开,解除链锁,解除链子buy freedom of购买自由的,购买自由,购买的自由,购买自由度buy out买断,购出,买出,购买obtain release of获得释放,获释,取得释放,获得释放的pay for release of付放,支付释放,付放的,支付放行set free释放,放弃,解放,解脱unfetter展开,展翅高飞,展开全部,展转

Examples

  • The Magic didn’t exactly net a king’s ransom when they traded away four veterans — Nikola Vucevic, Aaron Gordon, Evan Fournier and Al-Farouq Aminu — in three deals Thursday, but their sell-off was a long time coming.

  • Some do it for fun, while others seek to hijack systems, blackmail targets or win a lucrative ransom.

  • A better analogy for today’s algorithmically driven platform would be one of those ransom notes from the movies, where the kidnapper cuts out magazine letters to spell words.

  • A Gulf State had promised to pay a huge ransom—Padnos says he was told 11 million Euros—in exchange for the American, and Abu Maria planned to be there.

  • The leaguewide quarterback movement began last month when the Detroit Lions agreed to trade Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams for fellow quarterback Jared Goff and a king’s ransom of draft choices.

  • “I noticed something,” I say to Marvin, feeling a little like Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law.

  • At the same time, we should expect a rise in kidnapping for ransom.

  • FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said that the bureau fully complies with U.S. policy as it relates to ransom payments.

  • European governments, for their part, have long agreed to pay groups like ISIS ransom money.

  • Where do you think the ransom money for Western hostages is going?

  • For ten years now had these been riding and raiding around the walls, pillaging and holding to ransom.

  • The second were ruffians who forced their victims to pay ransom by holding their feet in fires.

  • The Abbot Guilbert offers three hundred silver sous for his ransom.

  • He quickly pointed out Bezenecq the Rich as a townsman from whom it would be easy to extract a big ransom.

  • Have I not offered you three hundred gold sous for my ransom, Count of Plouernel?

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