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noun

• money demanded for the return of a captured person

• payment for the release of someone

• the act of freeing from captivity or punishment

verb

• exchange or buy back for money; under threat

40%11Payment demanded by a kidnapper
noun

• money demanded for the return of a captured person

31%10Kidnapper's crime
noun

• (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment

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