BLOOD MONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood money mean? 

• BLOOD MONEY (noun)
  The noun BLOOD MONEY has 3 senses:

1. compensation paid to the family of a murdered person

2. a reward for information about a murderer

3. paid to a hired murderer

  Familiarity information: BLOOD MONEY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD MONEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compensation paid to the family of a murdered person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("blood money" is a kind of...):

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A reward for information about a murderer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("blood money" is a kind of...):

reward (payment made in return for a service rendered)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Paid to a hired murderer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("blood money" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

 Context examples 

They are useful, these traitors, but I grudge them their blood money.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)