ransom money

1. 1.

   money demanded for the return of a captured person

   Synonymsransom

   Broadercost

Questions about ransom money

What does ransom money mean?

ransom money means "money demanded for the return of a captured person".

What is another word for ransom money?

Close synonyms include ransom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ransom money a common word?

ransom money is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.