blood money

1. 1.

   compensation paid to the family of a murdered person

   Broadercompensation
2. 2.

   a reward for information about a murderer

   Broaderreward
3. 3.

   paid to a hired murderer

   Broaderpayment

Questions about blood money

What does blood money mean?

blood money means "compensation paid to the family of a murdered person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is blood money a common word?

blood money is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.