ransom payment
Frequency: 7.110.9 per million words
The act of paying a ransom.
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Examples (10)
- The family scraped together the large ransom payment.
- Negotiations focused on the terms of the ransom payment.
- Governments often refuse to make a ransom payment to terrorists.
- The hacker demanded a cryptocurrency ransom payment.
- A swift ransom payment secured the hostage's release.
- The company decided against a ransom payment to recover its data.
- She advised against making any ransom payment.
- The police tracked the source of the ransom payment.
- Raising the ransom payment was an arduous task.
- The debate over whether to authorize a ransom payment continued for days.