单词 | blood money |
释义 | blood money noun [mass noun] 1Money paid in compensation to the family of someone who has been killed.If the woman's family wishes the murderer to be executed, they must first repay half of the family's blood money....
2Money paid to a hired killer.One quarter of those will die before they can claim their State pension, which pours yet more blood money into government pockets....
2.1Money paid for information about a killer or killing.He also feared it might be viewed as ‘paying blood money to what are termed informers, an anachronistic view still adhered to by certain elements of the population’....
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