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  • noun
    plural -soms
    money that is paid in order to free someone who has been captured or kidnapped [count]
    The family is willing to pay ransom for his release.
    ransom money/payment
    (chiefly USA group of men is holding the ship's crew for ransom. = (BritA group of men is holding the ship's crew to ransom. - sometimes used figuratively
    (BritThe boy used his bad temper to hold his mother to ransom, forcing her to buy him sweets. - see also king's ransom
    verb
    -soms; -somed; -soming
    [+ obj] :to pay money in order to free (a person who has been captured or kidnapped)