ransom — OET · Shobdo

ransom

noun

1 the kidnappers demanded a huge ransom:

pay-off, payment, price.

2 the ransom of the prisoners:

release, freedom, setting free, deliverance, liberation, rescue, redemption, restoration.

verb

the girl was subsequently ransomed for £4 million:

obtain the release of, exchange for a ransom, buy the freedom of, release, free, deliver, liberate, rescue, redeem, restore to freedom.

ransom Oxford Dictionary of English