📖 Определения и значения для слова ransom
📒 money that is paid to somebody so that they will set free a person who is being kept as a prisoner by them
- The kidnappers demanded a ransom of £50 000 from his family.
- a ransom demand/note
- ransom money
📒 to keep somebody as a prisoner and demand that other people pay you an amount of money before you set them free
📒 to take action that puts somebody in a very difficult situation in order to force them to do what you want
- The company refused to be held to ransom by the union.
📒 a very large amount of money