ransomとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹænsəm/

名詞

ransom (usually uncountable, 複数形 ransoms)

1. Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.

   They were held for two million dollars ransom.

   They were held to ransom.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII:

     Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.

   • (Can we date this quote by Sir J. Davies かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.

   • 2010, Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad:

     As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor, Hermes says, his remaining sons at Troy “'would give three times as much ransom / for you, who are alive, were Atreus' son Agamemnon / to recognize you.'”

2. The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.

   prisoners hopeless of ransom

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

3. (historical, law, Britain) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)

使用する際の注意点

• "held for ransom" is much more common in the US, "held to ransom" in the UK.

派生語

• king's ransom
• ransomware

動詞

ransom (三人称単数 現在形 ransoms, 現在分詞 ransoming, 過去形および過去分詞形 ransomed)

1. (14th century) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
2. To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.

   to ransom prisoners from an enemy

3. To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.

   Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. — Berners.

参考

• bail

参照

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997

アナグラム

• Armons, Manors, Marons, Romans, Rosman, manors, morans, mornas, normas, ramson, sarmon