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blood money
noun
- a fee paid to a hired murderer.
- compensation paid to the next of kin of a slain person.
- money obtained ruthlessly and at a cost of suffering to others.
- money paid to an informer in order to cause somebody to be arrested, convicted, or especially executed.
blood money
noun
- compensation paid to the relatives of a murdered person
- money paid to a hired murderer
- a reward for information about a criminal, esp a murderer
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They have the right to demand either execution or “blood money,” a hefty ransom that spares the life of the accused.
As he handed out blood money, Weston writes about not having the answer then—or now.
The mother was adamant: she would not accept blood money for the death of her child.
And I love the juxtaposition of the tenderness and the gentleness with his daughter and showing her this blood money.
A trailer for yet another anti-Romney film, called “Blood Money.”
"I have it here," said the boss, and he took the blood-money bank-roll from his pocket and removed the rubber band.
I think he was glad as it was blood money in a way (if you can call a moustache blood) that it should go back to Maitland.
Can you not see that, in one sense, in a sort of way, it is almost like blood-money?
What's your percentage of the blood-money, Mr. Harrington Surtaine?
They could not sustain themselves a moment but for the loans made to them by these blood-money loan-mongers.
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