ransom note
noun
A letter sent by a kidnapper or kidnappers demanding a ransom for the return of a hostage, and typically threatening harm to the hostage if the ransom is not paid.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Evening Herald (Syracuse, New York).
- perplexion
- perplexity
- perplexive
- perplexment
- per primam intensionum
- per primam intentionem
- per pro.
- per procuration
- per procurationem
- perp walk
- perqueer
- perqueir
- perquisite
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- perquisitor
- per quod
- perradial
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- Perrault, Charles
- per recte et retro
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- perrhenate
- perrhenic acid
- Perrier