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ransom
3 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural ransoms
plural ransoms
Learner's definition of RANSOM
: money that is paid in order to free someone who has been captured or kidnapped赎金 — sometimes used figuratively有时用作比喻 — see also king's ransom
[count]
- The kidnappers demanded a ransom of one million dollars.绑匪索要一百万美元的赎金。
[noncount]
- The family is willing to pay ransom for his release.这家人愿意用钱将他赎回。
- The ransom note explained the terms under which she would be released.勒索信里说明了释放她的条件。
- ransom money/payment赎金
- (chiefly US) A group of men is holding the ship's crew for ransom. = (Brit) A group of men is holding the ship's crew to ransom.一帮人绑架了船上的船员索要赎金。
- (Brit) The boy used his bad temper to hold his mother to ransom, forcing her to buy him sweets.这个男孩发脾气，逼妈妈给他买糖吃。
2 ransom /ˈrænsəm/ verb
ransoms; ransomed; ransoming
2 ransom
/ˈrænsəm/
verb
ransoms; ransomed; ransoming
Learner's definition of RANSOM
[+ object]
: to pay money in order to free (a person who has been captured or kidnapped)用钱赎回
- He was held captive for a week before he was ransomed and returned to his family.他被绑架一个星期后才被赎出回到家里。
ran·som ˈran(t)-səm 
ransomed; ransoming; ransoms
ransomer noun
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Noun The kidnappers demanded a ransom of one million dollars. The family is willing to pay ransom for his release. The ransom note explained the terms under which she would be released. Verb He was held captive for a week before he was ransomed and returned to his family. the prince emptied the treasury to ransom his son from the kidnappers
Recent Examples on the Web
Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022 In 2017, the village of Nashotah paid $2,000 ransom to an unknown attacker to decrypt its computer system after a hack that left some residents' personal information exposed. Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022 Also in 2021, JBL, the world’s largest meat processing company, paid an $11 million ransom to put an end to a major cyber-attack that reportedly shut down its U.S. beef plants. William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2022 In recent times, hackers have targeted businesses and public agencies, including schools — seeking ransom or simply to cause mayhem. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022 Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have long taken foreign hostages for ransom to fund operations. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022 Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have long taken foreign hostages for ransom to fund operations. Arsene Kabore, ajc, 31 Aug. 2022 The company is right that the current paywall and subscription model is deeply flawed—readers are forced into annoying rigmaroles simply to read articles and then subjected to ransom-like procedures to unsubscribe. Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022 Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest and the practice has spread to other parts of the country, increasing insecurity in Africa's most populous nation. Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022 Michael Mehlberg, Forbes, 6 June 2022 There are four broad categories of potential losses due to cybersecurity breaches: business and operational disruption costs due to recovery activities, ransom demands, legal liabilities and lawsuits. Brian Greenberg, Forbes, 16 May 2022 Yet huge corporations are successfully held to ransom every day by cyber crooks demanding millions for the safe return of data. Al Ramich, Forbes, 1 July 2022 The plot aimed not to kidnap or ransom but to kill. William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 17 June 2022 Say a client is living in a territory where kidnap and ransom for profit is a day-to-day threat. Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 June 2022 These actors use Maui ransomware, a specific technology that has a North Korean hallmark, to infiltrate health care sectors and hold their systems ransom in exchange for a payment, American officials said in an advisory. Luke Barr, ABC News, 6 July 2022 Meanwhile, Joyce got a package from the Soviet Union from Dmitri (Tom Wlaschiha), a crooked prison guard in Siberia, who wanted to illicitly ransom Hopper—alive but imprisoned at a Soviet labor camp—back to her. James Grebey, Time, 27 May 2022 According to coauthor and seismologist Anthony Lomax, his impression from Haitian scientists is that a major impediment to a stable seismic network is general lawlessness, ranging from theft of equipment to ransom kidnapping. Alka Tripathy-lang, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2022 See More
Noun
The indictment doesn’t say whether the company paid the ransom. Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022 In 2017, the village of Nashotah paid $2,000 ransom to an unknown attacker to decrypt its computer system after a hack that left some residents' personal information exposed. Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022 Also in 2021, JBL, the world’s largest meat processing company, paid an $11 million ransom to put an end to a major cyber-attack that reportedly shut down its U.S. beef plants. William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2022 In recent times, hackers have targeted businesses and public agencies, including schools — seeking ransom or simply to cause mayhem. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022 Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have long taken foreign hostages for ransom to fund operations. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022 Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have long taken foreign hostages for ransom to fund operations. Arsene Kabore, ajc, 31 Aug. 2022 The company is right that the current paywall and subscription model is deeply flawed—readers are forced into annoying rigmaroles simply to read articles and then subjected to ransom-like procedures to unsubscribe. Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022 Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest and the practice has spread to other parts of the country, increasing insecurity in Africa's most populous nation. Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022 Verb
Forcing a car to lock or disabling power steering could allow an attacker to ransom a vehicle by pressuring the owner to restore functionality. Michael Mehlberg, Forbes, 6 June 2022 There are four broad categories of potential losses due to cybersecurity breaches: business and operational disruption costs due to recovery activities, ransom demands, legal liabilities and lawsuits. Brian Greenberg, Forbes, 16 May 2022 Yet huge corporations are successfully held to ransom every day by cyber crooks demanding millions for the safe return of data. Al Ramich, Forbes, 1 July 2022 The plot aimed not to kidnap or ransom but to kill. William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 17 June 2022 Say a client is living in a territory where kidnap and ransom for profit is a day-to-day threat. Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 June 2022 These actors use Maui ransomware, a specific technology that has a North Korean hallmark, to infiltrate health care sectors and hold their systems ransom in exchange for a payment, American officials said in an advisory. Luke Barr, ABC News, 6 July 2022 Meanwhile, Joyce got a package from the Soviet Union from Dmitri (Tom Wlaschiha), a crooked prison guard in Siberia, who wanted to illicitly ransom Hopper—alive but imprisoned at a Soviet labor camp—back to her. James Grebey, Time, 27 May 2022 According to coauthor and seismologist Anthony Lomax, his impression from Haitian scientists is that a major impediment to a stable seismic network is general lawlessness, ranging from theft of equipment to ransom kidnapping. Alka Tripathy-lang, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English ransoun, from Anglo-French rançun, from Latin redemption-, redemptio — more at redemption
First Known Use
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of ransom was in the 13th century Phrases Containing ransom
noun
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