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ransoms
 
Noun ransom has 3 senses
  1. ransom, ransom money - money demanded for the return of a captured person
    --1 is a kind of cost
    Derived form: verb ransom1
  2. ransom - payment for the release of someone
    --2 is a kind of     payment, defrayal, defrayment
    Derived form: verb ransom1
  3. ransom - the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
    --3 is a kind of     recovery, retrieval
    Derived form: verb ransom1
Verb ransom has 1 sense
  1. ransom, redeem - exchange or buy back for money; under threat
    --1 is one way to exchange, change, interchange
    Derived forms: noun ransom3, noun ransom2, noun ransom1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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