Pay up and Ransom

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Pay up verb - To give what is owed for.

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Ransom and pay up are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Ransom" with "Pay up", this verbs are similar.

Ransom verb - To free from captivity or punishment by paying a price.

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Pay up and ransom are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pay up" instead a verb "Ransom".

Nearby Words: ransomed, ransoming

Ransom. When Mullen goes on television saying he's not going to pay up, offering the ransom money as a reward instead for anyone who turns in the kidnappers, Shaker has to rush out to the forest where his gang are already digging a grave for Sean and stop them murdering him.

Source: Villainous Rescue
Not to mention taking a big group of tourists hostage on the Alcatraz Island and planning to kill the San Francisco's population unless the government pay up the ransom.

Source: Jerkass Woobie / Film
An episode of Kojak had a variation: The kidnapping was real but a friend of the parents' offered to pay up the ransom: It was actually a ploy by him to pay off a debt to the mob without being suspected.

Source: Faked Kidnapping

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