Synonym of the word RANSOM

n. Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
n. The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
n. (historical, law, Britain) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender;…
v. (14th century) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
v. To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
v. To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.

v. (intransitive) To become something different.
v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
v. (transitive) To replace.
v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
v. (archaic) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

n. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
n. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
v. To incur a charge; to require payment of a price.
v. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
v. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
v. To calculate or estimate a price.
n. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
n. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic…
n. (obsolete) A rib; a side.
n. (heraldry) A cottise.

n. An act of exchanging or trading.
n. A place for conducting trading.
n. A telephone exchange.
n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
n. A conversation.
n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

n. An act of interchanging.
n. A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
n. (rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at…
v. (transitive) to switch (each of two things).
v. (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange.
v. (intransitive) to swap or change places.
v. (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary.

v. (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
v. (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
v. (transitive) To set free by force.
v. (transitive) To save, rescue.
v. (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
v. (transitive) To expiate, atone (for …).
v. (finance, transitive) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
v. (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
v. (transitive) To repair, restore.
v. (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
v. (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
v. (archaic, transitive) To reclaim.

n. the act of retrieving or something retrieved.
n. (computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device.
n. the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness.

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