Held for Ransom — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel: Kidnapped – Tödlicher Sumpf Originaltitel: Held for Ransom Produktionsland: USA Erscheinungsjahr: 2000 Länge: 91 Minuten Originalsprache: Englisch … Deutsch Wikipedia
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom — Données clés Réalisation James Stuart Blackton Scénario Theodore Liebler Acteurs principaux Maurice Costello J. Barney Sherry Sociétés de production Vitagraph Company of America … Wikipédia en Français
ransom — 01. The [ransom] paid to obtain freedom for the kidnapped businessman was over $500,000. 02. The kidnappers have said that their hostages will be killed if the [ransom] is not paid. 03. The child s family paid over a million dollars in [ransom]… … Grammatical examples in English
ransom — ran|som1 [ˈrænsəm] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: rançon, from Latin redemptio; REDEMPTION] 1.) an amount of money that is paid to free someone who is held as a prisoner ▪ The kidnappers were demanding a ransom of $250,000. ▪ The… … Dictionary of contemporary English
ransom — noun VERB + RANSOM ▪ hold sb for, hold sb to, kidnap sb for ▪ She was kidnapped and held for ransom. ▪ The company refused to be held to ransom by the union. (figurative) ▪ … Collocations dictionary
Ransom Sheldon — was the founder of Houghton, a city in the county of Houghton, Michigan. Around 1850, Sheldon bought land near Portage Lake and later opened a store on southern side. (Ten years later he would build Pewabic House, the oldest still extant building … Wikipedia
ransom — [[t]ræ̱nsəm[/t]] ransoms, ransoming, ransomed 1) N VAR A ransom is the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped. Her kidnapper successfully extorted a ₤175,000 ransom for her release... The… … English dictionary
ransom factor — (RAN.sum fak.tur) n. The tendency for one party in a civil case to settle out of court to avoid the potentially high cost of fighting the case. Example Citations: The third and most worrying implication for newspapers under the arrangement is… … New words
ransom — ran·som 1 n: a consideration paid or demanded for the release of someone or something from captivity see also kidnapping ransom 2 vt: to free from captivity by paying a price rape 1 vt raped, rap·ing [Latin rapere to seize and take away by force] … Law dictionary
king's ransom — {n. phr.} 1. An excessively large sum of money extorted by kidnappers to let someone go free. * /The Smith family had to pay a kings ransom for the freedom of their seven year old son, Tommy./ 2. An exorbitant fee one is forced to pay. * /The… … Dictionary of American idioms
