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Blood money

noun

Compensation paid to the family of a murdered person.

A reward for information about a murderer.

Paid to a hired murderer.

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"Blood money" Quotes from Famous Books

... is correct," confirmed the physician. "You're still curing cancer, consumption, corns, colds, and cramps in print, for blood money. I've ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... of it from the first! I might have had all the gowns and bonnets"—with a look at Miss Sally's bows—"I wanted from her; she even offered to take me to St. Louis for a rig-out—if I'd been willing to take blood money. But I'd rather stick to this old sleazy mou'nin' for Tom"—she gave a dramatic pluck at her faded black skirt—"than flaunt round in white muslins and China silks at ten dollars a yard, ...

— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... tried to keep out of his mind any thought of that thousand-dollar reward. It sounded too much like "Blood money" to take pay for helping any afflicted family out of its troubles. Besides, it had been the glory of doing a piece of bright newspaper work that had allured the two High School boys ...

— The High School Left End - Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron • H. Irving Hancock

... murder, in order to establish incontestable alibis. Nevertheless, it was they who laid the trap, and they are equally guilty with the wretches who obeyed their orders. It was they who paid over the blood money, and with their arrest you will have all the accessories to the crime, save one. Of him I can tell you nothing. I fear I can never find him, for he walks in shadow and no man ...

— The Net • Rex Beach

Words linked to "Blood money" : reward, payment, compensation