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1. Money demanded for the return of a captured person
   - ransom money
    
2. Payment for the release of someone
    
3. The act of freeing from captivity or punishment

1. Exchange or buy back for money; under threat
   - redeem

Derived forms: ransomed, ransoms, ransoming

Type of: change, cost, defrayal, defrayment, exchange, interchange, payment, recovery, retrieval

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