Definitions for blood money
blood mon·ey

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blood moneynoun

   compensation paid to the family of a murdered person

2. blood moneynoun

   a reward for information about a murderer

3. blood moneynoun

   paid to a hired murderer

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blood moneynoun

   Money paid by a killer, or on his behalf, to one of his victims' next of kin.

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1. blood money

   Blood money is money paid in compensation to the family or relatives of someone who has been killed or injured, or it could be profit gained at the expense of others' lives or suffering. In some cultures, blood money is also used for settling disputes or legal issues.

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1. Blood money

   money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another

2. Blood money

   money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser

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1. Blood Money

   Blood Money is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label. The album contains songs written for the play Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner. The theatrical adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had worked on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice, both of which resulted in soundtrack albums. The latter was released simultaneously in 2002 with Blood Money. The play premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in November 2000. The song "God's Away on Business" featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. This album ranked at #18 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.

Matched Categories

1. • Compensation
   • Payment
   • Reward

How to pronounce blood money?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say blood money in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blood money in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blood money in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of blood money in a Sentence

1. Jeff Kasky:

   Politicians from EITHER SIDE who accept dirty NRA blood [money] will pay the price.

2. Phil Robertson:

   Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.

3. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:

   The penalties in the federal system need to be much more conveyed to people to discourage this idea that this is a harmless, mostly clerical administrative violation of the federal system, it is blood money. You are getting the guns... to someone that will harm someone.

4. Cheryl Juaire:

   They cant settle, that would be a huge disservice to the tens of thousands of families here in the United States who buried a child. Thats blood money from our children.

5. Stephanie Wilds:

   It’s all blue blood money, old American aristocratic wealth.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=blood money
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blood_Money
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood money
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=blood money