(n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
(n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
(n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
(n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
(n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(2) According to Ghazian, the regime cannot easily silence Ahmadinejad, because "he has two important assets: one is that he has the potential to act unexpectedly and, secondly, he has taken his opponents ransom by threatening to reveal their secrets to public."
(3) Professionals say the payment of ransoms by countries whose nationals are kidnapped encourages further kidnappings as they represent a guaranteed cash return.
(4) Other transactions are more blatantly criminal: Eritreans, who with Syrians and Afghans make up the majority of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, are often driven “for free” from Khartoum in Sudan to Ajdabiya on the Libyan coast, where they are locked up and tortured until relatives pay a ransom.
(5) At the end of 2010, AQIM had reportedly received €50m worth of ransom money since 2003, with each western hostage worth around €2.5m to the countries that paid up.
(6) A new criminal offence will be created to make it illegal for British insurance companies to provide cover for terrorist ransom payments.
(7) The mining giants have made enormous profits at the expense of Mirarr traditional lands,” he said, “and they are now holding the word heritage-listed area to ransom.
(8) He told delegates: "It cannot be right that 3,000 people should be able to hold the city to ransom, stop people getting to work and jeopardise the economic recovery when the measures we are taking to reform ticket offices are an inevitable consequence of the success of the automatic Oyster [smart card] system ... and when we are able to make these changes with no compulsory redundancies, with no loss of earnings and with no station unstaffed at any time.
(9) Ransome-Kuti made her name as an activist with a mass protest against policies that increased prices for market women.
(10) As "Darien", it was the lookout for Ransome's boat‑loving kids.
(11) The official Anadolu news agency reported that no ransom had been paid and "no conditions were accepted in return for their release".
(12) Downing Street believed it had secured an agreement last year during the UK's presidency of the G8 which meant the group's members would not pay ransoms to terrorist kidnappers.
(13) As for the name, we have already pointed out the possibility that he could have used different identities.” But Calantropo said that while the accused man had indeed been briefly in touch with actual smugglers, he did so to ensure the release of three friends held for ransom by smugglers.
(14) What the State Department admitted today was the dictionary definition of a ransom payment and a complete contradiction of what they were saying just two weeks ago.
(15) (via @ dylanbyers ) Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) White House statement on meeting somewhat tough: "we will not pay a ransom for Congress reopening the government" October 14, 2013 John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) So...why even have a meeting?
(16) The US refuses to pay ransom for hostages, and, Diane Foley said, even threatened to prosecute the Foley family for raising money to do so, while European countries do pay.
(17) He said the pair's freedom was due in large part to the "professionalism" of Foreign Office officials and backed the UK's stance of not engaging in ransom talks.
(18) An exasperated David Cameron lectured fellow world leaders on Thursday night telling them not to succumb to Islamic State's ransom demands, as he warned at the Nato summit in Wales that such payouts merely funded more terrorism against the west.
(19) Sunday's attack in Tripoli targeted the Islamist lawmakers and officials Hifter blames for allowing extremists to hold the country to ransom, his spokesman Mohammed al-Hegazi told Libyan television.
(20) George Christopoulos, his press secretary, and Isaac Ransom, his deputy, resigned "on principle", according to CBC News.
Redeem
Definition:
(v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
(v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
(v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
(v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
(v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
(v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
(v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to recent knowledge the offer of informations which smaller for the routine form of the ECG-evaluation may be extensively redeemed by the calculation of vectorial sizes, which presumes the machine evaluation of the ECG.
(2) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
(3) She's not a particularly religious person but when she had been restored to life on that hospital table she felt she would have a chance to redeem some of the mistakes she had made.
(4) After savaging the childcare support available to poorer working parents through tax credits in 2011, the coalition last year sought to redeem itself with a first draft of the new subsidy scheme, which created some winners up the scale, but left many more vulnerable part-time workers better off not working at all.
(5) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(6) There will be two added minutes for Argentina to redeem themselves.
(7) 2.28am GMT 15 mins Saborio seeks to redeem himself with a spot of helpful cheating, completely failing to take his distance at a Galaxy free-kick and somehow getting away with it - blocking the set piece near half-way and launching an RSL counter that concludes with Kyle Beckerman thundering a shot towards goal from the edge of the box.
(8) The Bank has been raising concerns about the potential liquidity risk in the financial system for some time but will now ask fund managers how they would handle a deluge of requests from investors to redeem their cash.
(9) Hart could only redeem himself by saving from Ibrahimovic and he did, diving low to his right to beat the ball out, and here was one blow made against the No10.
(10) She had a robust attitude when I grilled her on Lonely Planet's advice against walking up Corcovado to the Christ the Redeemer statue.
(11) Juventus 1-3 Barcelona | Champions League final match report Read more He redeemed himself soon after with a lunging challenge to break up another attack but Juventus overall looked rattled.
(12) It recalls the heyday of conscious or socially redeeming rap and will be hailed as a restorative for those resistant to recent hip-hop developments.
(13) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(14) "Gervinho will be redeemed when he can do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke!"
(15) It wasn't divine inspiration – I didn't get a tap on the shoulder saying: "Now is the time to give up and redeem yourself" – I just started falling out of love with it.
(16) What else, after all, would be the redeeming feature of a joke like "What's worse than finding a worm in your apple?
(17) "In spirit and blood we will redeem you, O Bahrain ."
(18) And a war loan dating from the first world war was finally redeemed earlier this year!
(19) That miss allowed Kolarov to redeem himself by sending in the corner that Touré volleyed past Gomes at the near post, before Agüero sent the travelling fans into ecstasy, expertly heading in Bacary Sagna’s cross.
(20) Putin said: "I hope you redeem yourself in other areas."